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Waxed Display Server

Dev Keyboard Shortcuts

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CTRL+ALT+DELETE kills Waxed, CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE restarts it

Category: Development
Version: v1.0.0
Status: Done

Dev Keyboard Shortcuts

A temporary feature with a surprisingly useful effect during development. When developing Waxed, there are often moments where you need to kill or restart it but don’t have a fancy UI yet to do that through some button.

The Shortcuts

Waxed supports two hard-coded keyboard shortcuts:

ShortcutAction
CTRL+ALT+DELETEKills Waxed immediately
CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACERestarts Waxed with the same plugin loaded

Why This Exists

During rapid development cycles, you often need to:

  • Kill a misbehaving instance
  • Restart to pick up code changes
  • Test crash recovery behavior

Without a UI, you’d be stuck switching to a TTY or SSHing in. These shortcuts provide a quick escape hatch.

Easter Egg Status

This is a fun easter egg feature for early adopters and developers. It probably won’t make it to version 1.0.0 and will just “vanish” at some point when proper UI controls exist.

Historical Note

The CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE combo is a nod to the classic X11 shortcut that killed the X server. Old-school Linux users will feel right at home.