F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
David
dgboles at comcast.net
Fri Mar 27 23:37:08 UTC 2009
On 3/27/2009 4:45 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 16:31 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
>> I was reading through the F11A Release Notes when I came across this:
>> "The key combination Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill the X server has
>> been disabled by default as a decision of the upstream Xorg project."
>> Having to deal with many servers and workstations in a company it is
>> crucial that Ctrl-Alt-Backspace be enabled by default. There are times
>> when your KVM has lost mouse control or X is in a tight loop and
>> something like Ctrl-Alt-Backspace can save the situation. This is much
>> more common than the uncommon cases that are illustrated as to why this
>> has been removed as default.
>> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace needs to be restored as the "default" and Emacs users
>> or others that find themselves in conflict with Java expressions can
>> just disable it for their very limited purpose.
> aaaaaaagh, here comes the zombie thread again...run! run for your lives!
Hi Adam. Welcome to Fedora. I missed you since leaving some time ago.. well
where you just left.
You will find that the 'same nuts' are here as there. They just have
different names. 8-)
--
David
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