Ctrl+Atl+Del

bhusare · 03-02-2007, 11:21 AM

How do enable Ctrl+Alt+Del so that the system will reboot....!
i have slackware 11.0

theYinYeti · 03-02-2007, 11:25 AM

Ctrl+Alt+Del probably already does a reboot, but only in text mode. There's nothing for the GUI as far as I know, but it is easy enough to do. I once made a Ctrl+Alt+Del menu using xbindkeys, open, and bits of bash.

Yves.

reddazz · 03-02-2007, 11:29 AM

CRTL-ALT-DEL should already be set to reboot the machine. As mentioned above, it will probably only work if you do it in the command line. If you do CTRL-ALT-DEL in KDE, you will get a dialogue box asking you whether you wish to logout, reboot etc.

Indiestory · 03-02-2007, 12:24 PM

Ctrl-alt-del kills x for me, dont think it does anything on the cli. I think you can change this behavior in one of the rc config files, i'm not too sure though

reddazz · 03-02-2007, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Indiestory

Ctrl-alt-del kills x for me, dont think it does anything on the cli. I think you can change this behavior in one of the rc config files, i'm not too sure though

The behaviour of CTRL-ALT-DEL is configured in /etc/inittab. The code below shows what mine looks like (on openSUSE 10.3 devel)

Code:

# what to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -r -t 4 now

bhusare · 03-04-2007, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by reddazz

CRTL-ALT-DEL should already be set to reboot the machine. As mentioned above, it will probably only work if you do it in the command line. If you do CTRL-ALT-DEL in KDE, you will get a dialogue box asking you whether you wish to logout, reboot etc.

i dont get reboot option i only get logout option....

reddazz · 03-04-2007, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by bhusare

i dont get reboot option i only get logout option....

Are you using KDM?

erklaerbaer · 03-04-2007, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by bhusare

i dont get reboot option i only get logout option....

and 'Task Manager'. That's all right, standard behavior. file a wishlist bug at bugs.kde.org, if you want reboot also.

i guess you are asking this question to fix a freezed system?
that's normally more easily accomplished by switching to a terminal (alt-crtl-f6), logging in and killing the offending process (pkill [-9] <process name>)

theYinYeti · 03-05-2007, 12:24 PM

Or for extreme cases, if your PC is ACPI-enabled, you can push the power-button, which will trigger the shutdown command.

For more extreme cases, AltSysRQ is the way to go.

Yves.