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So you can kill a locked up full screen application. Or any application happens to have fubar'd your entire desktop session. Happens all the time on windows.
by mbell 15y ago
So you can kill a locked up full screen application. Or any application happens to have fubar'd your entire desktop session. Happens all the time on windows.
- ttt_ 15y agoIn that case, couldn't Ctrl-Alt-Del try first in the current context, and in failing recur to the winlogon context?
- mbell 15y agoI suppose it could. But i think the power of Ctrl-Alt-Del is that it switches to a different desktop (and context), as long as your graphics driver isn't borked, it should work. Its basically the same idea as Ctrl-Alt-F2 dumping you to a different tty on a linux box even if X crashes. To my knowledge windows doesn't support that type of "multiple tty/desktop" sessions per user so rather than switching ttys within a single user context they have to switch to the system context. Not saying its ideal, but rather just that access to the task manager is in there for this reason primarily, at least as far I can figure out.