STEPS TO REPRODUCE Wrongly think that Ctrl+Alt+F4 is the shortkey that kills apps. OBSERVED RESULT Your system dies without warning, and in my case it broke important apps, forcing me to reinstall the system. EXPECTED RESULT A warning saying something like "This shortkey command will kill your session instantaneously, do you want to proceed?" SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.20.0 Qt Version: 6.10.0 Kernel Version: 6.17.8-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 8 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-11300H @ 3.10GHz Memory: 9 GB of RAM (8.1 GB usable) Graphics Processor 1: Mesa Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics Graphics Processor 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650/PCIe/SSE2 Manufacturer: LENOVO Product Name: 82MG System Version: IdeaPad Gaming 3 15IHU6 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION If there are other similar shortkeys, please add warnings for them too.
Ctrl + Alt + F12 also kills the system.
Hey, I’m sorry to hear that you had issues. However, the key combination did most certainly not kill your system, but instead switched you to a text console. To switch back to desktop, you can try Ctrl+Alt+F1, Ctrl+Alt+F2 or Ctrl+Alt+F7. One of them will work and bring you back to Plasma as if nothing has happened.
(In reply to Oliver Schramm from comment #2) > Hey, > > I’m sorry to hear that you had issues. However, the key combination did most > certainly not kill your system, but instead switched you to a text console. > To switch back to desktop, you can try Ctrl+Alt+F1, Ctrl+Alt+F2 or > Ctrl+Alt+F7. One of them will work and bring you back to Plasma as if > nothing has happened. But why there can't be warnings?
(In reply to Fernando M. Muniz from comment #3) > (In reply to Oliver Schramm from comment #2) > > Hey, > > > > I’m sorry to hear that you had issues. However, the key combination did most > > certainly not kill your system, but instead switched you to a text console. > > To switch back to desktop, you can try Ctrl+Alt+F1, Ctrl+Alt+F2 or > > Ctrl+Alt+F7. One of them will work and bring you back to Plasma as if > > nothing has happened. > > But why there can't be warnings? It's a good point but even if a warning could be added, adding a warning would defeat the purpose. A reason to switch to the text console nowadays is if the desktop has crashed somehow or is otherwise unresponsive. Then you could switch to the text console to restart it or kill an offending process. If the desktop first has to show a warning or similar, it could worsen a possible problem. It's sort of like an emergency hatch.
Is there a was of adding a text telling users how to go back to a normal session?
(In reply to Fernando M. Muniz from comment #5) > Is there a was of adding a text telling users how to go back to a normal > session? Sure, the contents of /etc/issue are displayed at the top of the screen. So, editing this file could give users a warning. But showing a default warning there would have to be done by the distribution, not by KDE.