On Friday 26 of October 2012 22:13:32 Thierry de Coulon wrote:
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Pascal Viandier pviandier@accovia.com wrote: (...)
> Since installing the latest backport kernel in Squeeze, kdm-trinity > login screen shows this: > > Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to begin
(...)
And knowledge is a force: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_attention_key
Is Ctrl-Alt-Del a Trinity choice or a Debian kernel choice? I never liked Ctrl-Alt-Del (in Windows) because I have been used to type that for reboot. And it has a Windows taste.
I read here from Andrew Morton http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SAK.txt
: "What key sequence should you use? Well, CTRL-ALT-DEL is used to reboot
the machine. CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE is magical to the X server. We'll choose CTRL-ALT-PAUSE."
Seems to me to make sense (although I personaly don't use the login screen on my private machines.
Thierry de Coulon
Ctrl + Alt + Del Trinity is a choice - independent of the kernel and distributions. Perhaps this was the intention of choice precisely because it was for the users typical sequence.
Note: On some notebooks can be key Pause less accessible than Delete.
Slavek --