Re: CVS commit: src/sys

[Dave Sainty <David.Sainty%dtsp.co.nz@localhost>]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 08:03:55PM +0200, Antti Kantee wrote:
>   
> > On Sun Mar 23 2008 at 18:53:18 +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> >     
> > > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 07:17:15PM +0200, Antti Kantee wrote:
> > >       
> > > > Would it be possible to have a simple keypress alias for this?  So that X
> > > > would freeze, but if you press e.g. ctrl-esc, you get ddb?
> > > >         
> > > You mean like ctrl-alt-esc?
> > >       
> > Used to be that double entry to ddb really screwed things up even if you
> > didn't want to continue execution later.  If ctrl-alt-esc jumps to text
> > mode now and doesn't retrap, there's no problem.
> >     
>
> Ah, you mean from inside ddb. Well, it sometimes works, but not always.
> I would bind it to a short command. What do others think?
>
> Joerg
>   
No-one is going to be surprised to switch to a text console with DDB if 
they hit C-M-ESC, just grateful :) And it's a keystroke that people 
already know.

But (as a "nice to have") if the keystroke is overloaded, it'd be nice 
if there was some indication that you're definitely in DDB when X hangs, 
just in case you aren't. Flashing keyboard LED? Is that going overboard? :)