We have alt-f4 (as well as clicking the WM's close button), which waits a little while for the application to respond, and when it doesn't, pops up a force-quit window... it would be nice if it could detect non-responding applications instantly, but that might be infeasible. Compiz tries, but I don't think it does a very good job of dimming the right applications. On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 13:49 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> Marcos Graf wrote on 27/05/08 02:32: > > > > I´d like to suggest > > Ctrl-Alt-Del to run the System Monitor > > by default, > >... > > I agree that there should be a keyboard combo that lets you close a > badly-behaving program. > > I don't know that necessarily means opening System Monitor. System > Monitor is quite large and slow, and it doesn't float on top of all > other windows (it would be annoying if it did). The interface for > closing a badly-behaving program should be small, it should appear > instantly, and it should float above all other windows, making it harder > for a badly-behaving program to hide it. > > I think making the keyboard combo Ctrl Alt Delete would be good for > consistency with Windows, but bad for marketing. > > Cheers
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