On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 18:17, textshell neutronstar dyndns org wrote: > On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 06:25:56PM +0200, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote: > > El sáb, 13-07-2002 a las 18:15, Mark Finlay escribió: > > > I think that it would be really useful if metacity had a default > > > keybinding to bring up the gnome-system-monitor. > > > > > > When a program crashes most user's habitual behavior is to press > > > ALT+CTRL+DEL - at the moment they then realise that that does nothing > > > and go looking for a way to kill the app. It would be a lot more > > > intritive, IMHO, if ALT+CTRL+DEL ran the system-monitor. > > > > > > It's not so intuitive. It's the windows way. I don't like it because > > it's the same keybinding to reboot a server (from text mode). > > > > For example, the macos way it's better here (IMHO) but we can use other > > one, of course. They use ALT+Apple key+ESC, we can use, for example, > > Ctr+Alt+Esc > > Yes KDE uses Ctrl+Alt+Esc to change the cursor to the 'pirate' and kills (XKill) > the client the user clicks on. This is a really nice although somewhat dangerus > feature. I have a similar thing on my desktop as a sawfish extenstion. > > For discussion of the real purpose of ctrl-alt-del or such things have a look > at: > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-May/msg00716.html > > The kill cursor as seen in KDE and maybe MacOS is a nice thing to have. A > keyboard shortcut for gnome-system-monitor could be nice too, but is that really > a feature for the window manager? I'd say if some part of the desktop would > provide a generic way to start programs on key combos would be more useful(maybe > with a default for g-system-monitor) MacOS X pops up a dialog with a list of applications currently running (nice icons included), and it's possible to cancel the kill. IMO, this would be a good addition to the panel's action menu, along with the ability to change the shortcut, via the kbd shortcut prefs. I can provide some screenshot of the MacOS X dialog. Anybody fancy taking this on ? It's a good task for gnome-love. Cheers -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net
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