F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
Gerry Reno
greno at verizon.net
Fri Mar 27 21:04:19 UTC 2009
Roland McGrath wrote:
> I'm sure many of us are used to hacking xorg.conf with:
>
> Section "ServerFlags"
> Option "DontZap" "1"
> EndSection
>
> A change to the default just means that people who care in the other
> direction need that same thing with s/1/0/ in their habits or kickstart %post.
>
> Neither of these is very satisfactory to me.
>
> Where this really belongs in with the user "keyboard shortcuts" preferences
> settings, so each desktop user gets it the way they want it. Then really
> nobody will care which way the default is, it's just a user preference.
>
> (I understand why this is magically different from other keyboard config
> things, but I don't really care what the preferences magic does behind the
> curtain if it makes it work.)
>
> All that said, in my experience when C-M-DEL works, C-M-Fn also works to
> switch VTs, with the same level of how-bad-the-session-is-borked affecting
> whether the X server magic hotkeys work. So, C-M-F3 and use the console
> login to go kill it pretty much always works for the scenarios you are
> worried about.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Roland
>
>
Just how do I sent that to a VM from a VMM? Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is the
menu selection. And this behavior has been a part of X as I said, for
decades.
Regards,
Gerry
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