what the f*ck (pardon my french)

[Jacques B.]

On 3/7/07, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> This didn't happen for some time, but today I managed to restart X in
> the middle of my work!
> I was pissed.
> This should happen. Only key combination I know of for restarting X is
> CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE.
>
> I use klipper in gnome as clipboard manager.
>
> I wanted to see a list of clipboard stack, and tried to press
> CTRL-ALT-V which pops up klipper window from tray.
>
> I'm not sure which keys I pressed but some key near V. Maybe C or F.
> But still when I not try CTRL-ALT-C or F my desktop stays working, X
> doesn't reset.
> Can somebody explain this to me?
>
> Thank you.
> --

CTRL-H  is the backspace keysequence in vi & bash shell.  I wonder if
somehow you managed to send a CTRL-ALT-<CTRL-H> key sequence to the
terminal.  I wasn't able to do it no matter what I seemd to try.
Maybe it's possible somehow.  And the H is relatively close to the V.

Jacques B.