Jediwan@lemy.lol to Linux@lemmy.ml · edit-26 months agoLinux equivalent of Win+Ctrl+Shift+B? (Restart graphics driver)message-squaremessage-square60fedilinkarrow-up164arrow-down13file-text
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minus-squareceiphas@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·6 months agoThere used to exist a hotkey CTRL-ALT-BKSP for restarting your current X-Session, don’t know if this still exists
minus-squarebaru@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·6 months agoThat’s specific to X11. It also wasn’t always enabled for security reasons (breaking out of a locked screen). Now with Wayland there’s no standard.
minus-squaredelirious_owl@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoHow is it a security risk to break out of a lock screen only to end up at a login screen?
minus-squareEufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoYou wouldn’t end up at a login screen, you’d end up in the last logged in user’s session.
minus-squareDeckweiss@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 months agoAdditionally, it terminated all gui processes. Which the windows shortcut mentioned in the question doesn’t.
minus-squarerotopenguin@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 months agoThere is a proposal to consider making a Wayland extension where programs can sit around and re-attach to a fresh, non-deaded display server. KDE is much closer to having a working version.
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months agoThat doesn’t restart anything. That kills the X11 server. It may or may not restart depending on system settings.
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-26 months agoThat doesn’t work for Wayland and I’m unsure which one Zorin uses
minus-squaretaladar@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoThat is just the key to kill the X server. It does not restart anything.
minus-squareHubertManne@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoI was thinking of that when I read this and was like. windows has something like this???
There used to exist a hotkey CTRL-ALT-BKSP for restarting your current X-Session, don’t know if this still exists
That’s specific to X11. It also wasn’t always enabled for security reasons (breaking out of a locked screen). Now with Wayland there’s no standard.
How is it a security risk to break out of a lock screen only to end up at a login screen?
You wouldn’t end up at a login screen, you’d end up in the last logged in user’s session.
Additionally, it terminated all gui processes. Which the windows shortcut mentioned in the question doesn’t.
There is a proposal to consider making a Wayland extension where programs can sit around and re-attach to a fresh, non-deaded display server. KDE is much closer to having a working version.
That doesn’t restart anything. That kills the X11 server.
It may or may not restart depending on system settings.
That doesn’t work for Wayland and I’m unsure which one Zorin uses
It uses Wayland
That is just the key to kill the X server. It does not restart anything.
I was thinking of that when I read this and was like. windows has something like this???