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From: roell@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Thomas Roell)
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Subject: Re: VGA X11R4 server problems
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Date: 28 May 90 14:32:45 GMT
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In-reply-to: gw18@prism.gatech.EDU's message of 28 May 90 13:06:18 GMT

>>But what for do you need switching to virtual terminals ??? I saw the 
>>posibility for switch to another terminal from the beginning, but I cann't 
>>guess who will need such a feature.
>
>Here's a reason.  In case X hangs for some reason and you can't do anything
>in it, it would be nice to be able to switch to a virtual terminal to kill
>the process.  But, of course that will never happen because X is a perfect
>piece of software that never breaks.  :-)

Perhaps I didn't mention it in the doc's to the server, but if you press
CTRL+ALT+DEL (looks like MS-DOZ, yep) the server will shut down.
This requires that the server is alive, which is also neccesary for switching
to another terminal.

The big question is: Do you need virtual terminals only for escape (i.e in
one direction) or for switching perhaps between multible X sessions (i.e. in
both directions, form and to) ?

I personally think that the escape via CRTL+ALT+DEL is sufficient enougth for
escaping X. But for real switching between terminals there is ABSOLUTELY NO
REASON.

- Thomas


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