F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Fri Mar 27 21:49:10 UTC 2009


On 03/27/2009 02:28 PM, Adam Miller wrote:
>> This change to default behavior of Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is an example of a tiny minority of Emacs users lobbying xorg for a change that will affect a huge number of community and commercial>users including datacenters and their sys admins. This change needs to be reversed immediately. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is embedded now into many tools including all the virtualization tools. It is>part of the DNA of every sys admin. To change this behavior is just insanity.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Gerry
>
> Please stop throwing around the "sys admins will freak out" card, I'm
> a sys admin and we do things correctly through provisioning using
> kickstarts. It will be maybe a 3 line edit to a script. It was an
> upstream choice, Fedora has historically remained compliant with
> upstream so I imagine if you would like a change to be made on this
> topic it would be most effective to discuss it with upstream.

Also, won't Ctrl+Alt+<Fn> still work to get you to a vt where you can at 
your choice kill X manually, or try to debug the problem further?




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