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From: Geoff Clements on 25 Apr 2010 15:03 Tom Anderson wrote: > On Sat, 24 Apr 2010, Geoff Clements wrote: > >> Tom Anderson wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 24 Apr 2010, Daniel James wrote: >>> >>>> In article <83dhkhFcm5U1(a)mid.individual.net>, Fp wrote: >>> WHY OH WHY does konsole not have a keyboard >>> shortcut for copying text, >> >> CTRL+SHIFT+C here on Konsole 2.3.3, oh and CTRL+SHIFT+V to paste > > Huh. I'll have to check what version we have - it seems to think paste is > shift-insert. > I just tried that and it's the same on mine so both ctrl-shft+v _and_ shft+insert do a paste. It's configurable so I took a look at the config. settings and ctrl-shft+v is "paste" with shft+insert being the alternative. -- Geoff
From: Moe Trin on 25 Apr 2010 21:59 On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, in the Usenet newsgroup uk.comp.os.linux, in article <87k4rwe468.fsf(a)spindle.srvr.nix>, Nix wrote: >Moe Trin spake thusly: >> This isn't anything ``new'' to Linux. Maybe you've forgotten how >> some systems were set up out of the box in the 1990s. >> # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE >> ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now >What's wrong with that? For a single user system you are running, nothing at all. >Obviously you don't want that on a server, but unless you're a >telepath you *will* have a desktop to which you will likely have >physical access. You can shut that machine down in numerous ways: >giving you a nice easy way to do it is not problematic. Actually I prefer to have this capability though I don't use it that often (being trained to use /sbin/halt or /sbin/shutdown depending on O/S). Having this capability is also preferable to having the untrained user reaching over and kicking the power switch when they are "finished" with the computer. Old guy
From: Martin Gregorie on 26 Apr 2010 07:09
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 02:01:19 +0100, Nix wrote: > On 24 Apr 2010, Moe Trin spake thusly: >> These distributions are optimized for the clueless home user who will >> be using one of very few accounts, and only running the system a few >> hours at a time. This isn't anything ``new'' to Linux. Maybe you've >> forgotten how some systems were set up out of the box in the 1990s. >> >> # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE >> ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now > > What's wrong with that? On my desktop, I have > > ca::ctrlaltdel:/usr/sbin/hibernate > > and an acpid event script to trigger a graceful shutdown when the power > button is hit. > > Obviously you don't want that on a server, but unless you're a telepath > you *will* have a desktop to which you will likely have physical access. > You can shut that machine down in numerous ways: giving you a nice easy > way to do it is not problematic. My point was not so much that locking out GUI access to root or using fancy graphical user login menus is bad per se, but that unilaterally forcing a set of login diktats on everybody is uncalled for. I'd be quite happy with the current defaults if that's what they were - defaults - provided that I can reconfigure the login screens etc. to suit myself, just like I can with almost everything else. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org | |