F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

[Matthew Woehlke]

Adam Jackson wrote:
> So let's list the cases that zap would actually recover from:
> 
> 1: stuck grabs
> 2: focus reverts to None and your window manager is dead
> 3: X driver that's decided to stop rendering (or stop rendering
> correctly)
4: "log out"... didn't. :-)

There's no data loss since I'm trying to make X shut down anyway. (And, 
guess what? VT switching *doesn't work* with NVIDIA's so-called 
"drivers". It'll be wonderful to have nouveau learn how to support 
triple-head across two boards.)

While I do have access to other machines from which I could ssh in, 
there's a huge convenience difference between giving the three-finger 
salute and getting immediately back to work, and powering up another 
box, logging in, finding X, killing it, going back down the hall to my 
machine, finding out it didn't work, trying again...

(I've not filed bugs any of the many occasions this has happened because 
I'm using trunk KDE; I tend not to bother filing bugs against stuff that 
has a high probability of having been fixed before I even noticed it, 
and might well be due to a bad build on my end.)

In the grand scheme of things, I log out so infrequently it's not a huge 
deal, but I still think disabling c-a-bs is the wrong decision.

-- 
Matthew
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This is a big deal, because now some tiny minority has lobbied for 
changes that end up hurting everyone else.
Yeah, I know. Par for the course. I hate the American government.
Actually, I was talking about X.org...