Bug 391349

yeah, that's why we added the fact you need to press twice to the release notes. The hardware not beeping (unless muted) is pretty rare though.



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 388189 ***

The beep is supposed to come from a plain and simple pc-beeper.
Not from the possibly muted or misconfigured sound system.

Well, you can also mute the PC speaker. :-)

> The hardware not beeping (unless muted) is pretty rare though.
I think we need to add this information to the release notes.

I think the current text covers this somehow implicitely resp. the reader might get a clue to press it twice within 2 seconds ;)

I don't think so.

> [...] If you press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace within 2 seconds again, it terminates        > the X server.

People will wait for the beep and if there is no beep they will become desperated and need to assume that SUSE broke it completely. We should add
something like this:

"On some hardware there is no PC Speaker availabe or it is disconnected, so you
 can't hear the beep. In this case just press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace twice."

That's weird wording. If you have to mention it, then mentioned it positively:

If you press CAB within 2 seconds, it terminates the X server. On most hardware you hear a beep after the first time."

New version in SVN:

  <!-- Bug 388189 -->
  <sect3 id="c-a-b" status="2008-05-16">
   <title>Press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace Twice to Terminate the X Server</title>

   <para>Pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace on GNOME, KDE, or any other graphical
desktop does not terminate the X server any longer.  If you press
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace within 2 seconds again, it terminates the X server.  On most
hardware you hear a beep after the first Ctrl-Alt-Backspace press.</para>

   <para>In the past it was possible to accidentally terminate an X session
using this key combination. Nevertheless, if you want to continue to use this
feature, remove the following line from the <literal>ServerFlags</literal>
section of the <filename>/etc/X11/xorg.conf</filename> file:</para>

   <screen
>Option "ZapWarning" "on"</screen>

   <para>For more information, see the <systemitem>xorg.conf</systemitem>
manpage.</para>
      </sect3>

Thanks, sounds better now. While we're on it.

> In the past it was possible to accidentally terminate an X session
> using this key combination. Nevertheless, if you want to continue to use this
> feature, ...

This makes "accidentally terminating an X session" a feature !?! Which sounds weird to me. I suggest to replace it with

[...] if you want to continue to use this key combination to terminate your X session, remove ...

For me both versions are fine.

Ok, so we go for Stefan's version:

  <!-- Bug 388189 -->
  <sect3 id="c-a-b" status="2008-05-19">
   <title>Press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace Twice to Terminate the X Server</title>

   <para>Pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace on GNOME, KDE, or any other graphical
desktop does not terminate the X server any longer.  If you press
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace within 2 seconds again, it terminates the X server.  On most
hardware you hear a beep after the first Ctrl-Alt-Backspace press.</para>

   <para>In the past it was possible to accidentally terminate an X server
using this key combination. Nevertheless, if you want to continue to use this
key combination to terminate your X server, remove the following line from the
<literal>ServerFlags</literal> section of the
<filename>/etc/X11/xorg.conf</filename> file:</para>

   <screen
>Option "ZapWarning" "on"</screen>

   <para>For more information, see the <systemitem>xorg.conf</systemitem>
manpage.</para>
      </sect3>

done. -> /work