On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 05:38:40PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 06:12:00PM +0100, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
> > > 
> > > Avoids confusion mainly and prevents ppl. from typing in stuff and not 
> > > understanding why the program is not responding.
> > 
> > I don't think this is very useful - you can still type Ctrl-Alt-1
> > to switch to the console.
> 
> but only if you know it (might have) panicked...

Yes, for example if you want to switch to VT 1 and you press Esc
accidentally - it is too close to F1 :-) Seeing the system freeze this way
is really puzzling.

Pavel