[Gllug] Odd laptop resolutions and Xorg

[Matthew King]

Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> writes:

> On 29 Apr 2009, Matthew King uttered the following:
>
>> I sometimes zap X to get it out of a hard loop (which happens sometimes
>> because I run an unstable distribution), but mostly it serves as a slap
>> around the face to remind me not to just hit the keyboard without thinking.
>
> Personally I flip over to the emergency monitor attached to the other
> machine and kick up gdb on it when that happens: can't have it happening
> again, must report it :)

Since getting married, the number of emergency monitors has drastically
decreased.

>> I also use both emacs and vi (real vi), so what does that make me?
>
> A member of the conspiracy, but not a full-fledged one. I probably count
> as a full-fledged one, as I can't stand real vi (the bleeding *cursor
> keys* don't work: join the 1980s already) and its more advanced commands
> fall out of my head all the time.

Well that's a good point. It's not technically real vi but it's as
real-vi-like as I can reasonably get it.

> But I've never killed X by hitting M-C-BS at the same time while trying
> to do a backward-kill-sexp: PC keyboards are notoriously bad at that
> sort of triple-chord anyway, so I always use ESC C-BS, which doesn't
> kill anything.
>
> (I *have* killed X simply by missing keys, because on my keyboard
> backspace, ctrl and alt are all next to each other in a line...)

Boggles.

Matthew

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