Shortening the rope [LWN.net]

Shortening the rope

Posted Apr 5, 2009 19:40 UTC (Sun) by dambacher (subscriber, #1710)
In reply to: Shortening the rope by kov
Parent article: Shortening the rope

I reconsidered the times I used CRTR-ALT-BACKSPACE: There were mostly two reasons to use it:

1) a program grabbed the keyboard and didn't let loose
2) a program grabbed the cpu and i was not able to open the terminal or switch console

In both cases I was happy to not holding down the power button for 3 seconds.

By the way: I never ever accidentally used ctrl-alt-backspace. I did run into an errorous rm -r in my base directiory though. But I learned from that...

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Shortening the rope

Posted Apr 6, 2009 7:35 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

There is a grab-breaking key (which I forget) which you can use for the
first (also breaks server grabs, I think, not that those are used by
anyone, thank goodness).

Shortening the rope

Posted Apr 8, 2009 22:01 UTC (Wed) by roelofs (guest, #2599) [Link]

There is a grab-breaking key (which I forget)

    Option "AllowDeactivateGrabs"

...and then ctrl-alt-[keypad]divide. (The latter is one of only two computer commands I have on a PostIt on my monitor. :-) )

Greg

Shortening the rope

Posted Apr 17, 2009 19:29 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Yeah, definitely gone in 1.6.x. Blast it.