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If you don't know about it, sure, but I find it's kind of convenient to get a safe shutdown and then be able to easily say "I don't care, just stop this program

• layer8 2y ago
  As I wrote, Ctrl-\ should do the trick. And it’s just not practical having to know which program applies the double pattern, and having to train yourself to not accidentally hit Ctrl-C twice.
  • __MatrixMan__ 2y ago
    My brush with the double-ctrl-C pattern was in a place that wrote a lot of Java. It was generally frowned on to write any code that relied on signals which windows users can't send, and if I recall, Java made it quite difficult anyhow. Windows does have a tradition of using ctrl-c to quit though, so SIGINT ends up being one of the few that you can use in both places. It's not pretty, but giving it a different meaning based on how many times you've ordered it seems like a somewhat natural next step, if a hacky one.
• wombatpm 2y ago
  Kids these day. Try resetting server windows on a sgi. Subject: -42- How can I restart the X server? Date: 10 Sep 1995 00:00:01 EST To restart the X server (Xsgi) once, do any one of the following (in increasing order of brutality): - killall -TERM Xsgi - hold down the left-Control, left-Shift, F12 and keypad slash keys (this is fondly known as the "Vulcan Death Grip") - /usr/gfx/stopgfx; /usr/gfx/startgfx - reboot To restart the X server every time someone logs out of the console, edit /var/X11/xdm/xdm-config, change the setting of "DisplayManager._0.terminateServer" from "False" to "True" and do 'killall -HUP xdm'.
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