Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

From	"" <pecondon@mesanetworks.net>
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Subject	Re: Another system management tool to disappear.
Date	2015-09-01 00:20 +0200
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Paul E Condon           
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--- christian@iwakd.de wrote:

From: Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de>
To: Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Another system management tool to disappear.
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 18:43:00 +0200

On 08/31/2015 05:48 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Monday 31 August 2015 16:36:26 The Wanderer wrote:
>> Lennart's proposed alternative (to su)
> 
> After all this discussion, I thought that I ought really to find out what 
> Lennart was proposing, and I must say that it looks remarkably 
> disability-unfriendly. :-(
> 
> For those who have still not discovered, you have to press ^ three times in 
> succession inside a second.

Well, if you want to force-close the session. su/sudo/pkexec don't
support that at all, as far as I know, so while there certainly is room
for improvement when it comes to accessibility (and the formulation of
the message) here, it isn't worse than su/sudo either.

If you want to exit the shell normally, typically the 'exit' command
will suffice (it depends on your shell, obviously).

Christian

On a jessie system, I can interrupt an Emacs file edit session with cntrlZ.
My only self acknowledged disabilities are mild loss of cognitive function and
frequent finger fumbles at the keyboard, so I don't know what a person who 
cannot press-and-hold cntrl and then press Z must do, but surely key entry of
cntrlZ is already a solved problem, but maybe not.

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Re: Another system management tool to disappear. "" <pecondon@mesanetworks.net> - 2015-09-01 00:20 +0200
  Re: Another system management tool to disappear. Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2015-09-03 11:00 +0200
    Re: Another system management tool to disappear. Paul Johnson <baloo@ursamundi.org> - 2015-09-03 11:40 +0200

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