On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:34:01PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > I read in some documentation that the key combination for shutting down > Linux in an orderly way, from any user account, is Ctrl-Alt-Delete. I figure > the equivalent on the iMac keyboard is Ctrl-Opt, but I wonder what > substitutes for the Delete key, the backspace key marked Delete doesn't cut > it.
you know ive always been curious about this, i have never found a way for the control-alt-del combo to work on powerpcs. on intel the `delete' key is what mac people call the forward-delete key. but neither that or backspace work on a mac (as ctrl-alt-del). this may work correctly when you switch to linux keycodes but i haven't done that yet since its not clear to me whether a new console-* package may be required or not. something else ive wondered, why can't control-command-power be trapped by init and used as ctrlaltdel? is this hardwired in hardware and untrappable by software? -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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