F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Mar 29 17:58:36 UTC 2009


Christopher Stone wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Matthew Garrett <mjg at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 06:33:29PM +0100, psmith wrote:
>>
>>> but who on earth can press those three keys by mistake? you'd have to be
>>> dumb, so the data loss point is moot, anyway if x locks up and zap is
>>> disabled your going to lose the data in a reboot anyway unless you have
>>> re-compiled the kernel and turned on the sysreq keys
>> Then I must be dumb. If that's the case, I recommend not running any
>> software I contribute to.
> 
> Yes, please give a list so I can be wary of that software.

Then, you might as well as stop running any Linux distribution. Matthew
Garett code is in not optional in Linux.

Rahul




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