It has now been 2 years ago since niekie.com and BergNETWORKS.com were registered. As you all know, niekie.com is my personal website. BergNETWORKS.com is a service provider for mostly IRC and Jabber services (although there are a few other unadvertised services).

You’ll notice some small addition to the pictures on both websites. One has to celebrate a bit, no?

That’s all for now.

Apparently some people thought it was too easy to trigger by mistake, and now it’s disabled by default. That of course isn’t that bad.. but there’s no easy way to enable it again. No GUI tool, nothing. (there is a hard way if you want, though)

Now, granted, you can just switch to a tty, log in, and restart the X Server from there (well, if that still works… if the X Server is under much stress switching to a tty might not work as expected), but Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is much more convenient and will work in most cases, and might save you from a forced reboot if that works and switching to a tty does not. It has it’s uses, and is usually needed in an emergency if the X Server starts misbehaving.

So, here’s hoping that they implement a GUI tool so you can start using Ctrl-Alt-Backspace if you want again, without editing scary configuration files.

Basically, everything you’ll find there is experimental, whether alpha, beta, or whatever name you give it. You should not think anything there is in its final form. Some stuff might even only be a small part of a future project, or part of a toolkit. You’re free to try it all, but totally at your own risk, of course.

Please also pay attention to any files ending with README, and definitely do read through them before you go mess around with stuff.

Currently, you won’t find much there yet, but some more stuff should be available there soon.

Have fun