Re: gdm submission

[Todd Graham Lewis <tlewis mindspring net>]

On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Ian McKellar wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 08:59:40PM -0500, Todd Graham Lewis wrote:
> > Would the authors of gdm be amenable to a patch which would simulate
> > WinNT's behaviour upon <ctrl><alt><del>?  I finally rebooted my Linux
> > box by accident, and so I now have to write the proggie to mimic this
> > behaviour, less I continue to lose our office uptime competitions.  8^)
> 
> This would be fairly tricky at the gnome level, but if you happen to be
> running  linux, then "grep ^ca: /etc/inittab" - thats where Linux's
> C-A-Del handling happens.

Yes, I know.  gdm will still have to be modified so that CAD when no one
is logged in will result in a prompt.  There will also be a user-level
handler which will register itself for the duration of a gnome session.
I was wondering if these mods to gdm are welcome.

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