How to make unity unresponsive in Unity session in precise?
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Recently I wanted to test the a keyboard shortcut, which is supposed to kill X server (hence very useful when you have a crash). That shortcut is not dependent on any particular window manager (like lxde
, unity
, kwin
etc). So, it must work, even when you have unresponsive window manager (as opposed to Alt
+Ctrl
+Backspace
which kills the session, and bring you a login screen).
That's why I interested to make my WM (unity) unresponsive. Is past, it was very easy. Opening a terminal, typing unity --replace
and then force close the terminal, was the simplest procedure. But unfortunately, This is not true in Ubuntu 12.04, (they make it very robust) Because whenever I kill the terminal, Unity automagically restart itself.
I also tried compiz --replace
but wasn't successful.
My question is: How can I make Unity unresponsive while I am in Unity session, so that window manager does not recognize any keyboard shortcut.
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