Patrick W. Barnes wrote:
I have to agree with Jesse on this. It sounds like you are getting a lot more exercise than a SysAdmin should. ;-)This is a big deal because now some tiny minority has lobbied for changes to X that end up affecting a large community. And the bogus arguments about user getting confused about keys is just that totally bogus. I've never had a user complain about X control key combinations. Emacs users complain because Emacs wants to have the same key control sequences as Xorg. That's just wrong. And as a sys admin if you're not willing to stand up and say that's wrong, then watch for more ridiculous changes coming your way in the future.I am surprised that you have so many systems on which this is apparently a problem and yet you do not do provisioning where a simple config change would resolve it. Even without provisioning for installs, any config provisioning would easily handle this.I am also a SysAdmin, and I do (very rarely) use this key combination, but certainly not often enough to see this as a big deal. There are soooo many ways around this change and around the need for the key combination in the first place.
I wish you luck in your upstream fight
There shouldn't even need to be a fight. It's a totally ridiculous change based on bogus arguments to begin with.
Regards, Gerry