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Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows

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On 01/09/11 17:52, Den wrote:
> Obviously, this is a windows-based question.  I know that Ctrl-Alt-Del
> is handled deep inside the OS, and I'm not trying to interrupt that.
> But is there some way to detect that a C-A-D has been pressed?
> 
> Also, is there a corresponding key-sequence in Mac and Linux?  And how
> might one detect those too?

On Linux Ctrl+Alt+Delete is typically configured to reboot the machine
when in console mode. In X11 (graphical), as far as I know, it's no
different than other keys. To catch it globally, you'd probably have to
go through the individual window manager.

As m'colleague Nobody mentions, there's also the SysRq feature, but that
always goes straight to the kernel and is, like Ctrl+Alt+Delete on
Windows, impossible to handle in userspace code.

Thomas

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Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Den <patentsvnc@gmail.com> - 2011-09-01 08:52 -0700
  Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-09-02 01:10 +0100
    Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-09-01 22:19 -0700
    Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-09-02 18:19 +1200
  Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Stephen Hansen <me+list/python@ixokai.io> - 2011-09-02 00:06 -0700
  Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 17:55 +1000
    Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-09-03 12:51 +1200
    Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-09-03 08:49 +0100
  Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-09-02 12:01 +0200
  Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows sjm <sjmsoft@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 05:27 -0700
    Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Den <patentsvnc@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 09:19 -0700
    Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Den <patentsvnc@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 09:20 -0700
  Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Web Dreamer <webdreamer@nospam.fr> - 2011-09-02 14:38 +0200
    Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2011-09-02 13:45 +0100
  Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Den <patentsvnc@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 09:26 -0700
    Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-09-03 07:47 +1000

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