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On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 04:51:52 PM Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2016-03-22, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> > On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 13:42:26 +0000, Ian Bloss wrote: |
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> >> Don't know if anyone has mentioned this but you can always use the |
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> >> magic sysrsc key to get control of input back from X |
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> > Yes, I mentioned Alt-SysReq-R several posts ago. |
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> You're probably right, the magick sysrq feature pretty much obviates |
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> the need to boot to console to protect against buggy X11 servers. But, |
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> it's fairly recent and Linux-specific. So, the boot-to-console trait |
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> (which evolved pre-sysrq -- and even pre-Linux, and has very little |
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> "cost") hasn't died out yet... |
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Yes, but it Xorg isn't that buggy to warrant the inconvience of a console boot |
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on a desktop/laptop. |
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Even with proprietary nvidia drivers. |
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