F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

Gerry Reno greno at verizon.net
Fri Mar 27 23:09:04 UTC 2009


Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 14:49 -0700, Christopher Aillon wrote:
>   
>> 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?
>>     
>
> Times when I really need to ctl-alt-bksp are generally times when the
> console state has been completely fucked up so that console switching
> doesn't work. And the reason I hit ctl-alt-bksp is usually so I can then
> hit ctl-alt-del to reboot the damned machine.
>
> Seriously, how braindead is it to not having *some* reliable way to
> trigger a reboot without needing a working monitor or network
> connection? (Or working keymap...) If you're going to kill ctl-alt-bksp,
> you damn well better enable ctl-alt-del while X is running. (Why was
> THAT ever disabled in the first place?)
>   
lobbying by the same tiny minority.

Regards,
Gerry

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