F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

[Ben Boeckel]

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Pete Zaitcev wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:19:05 -0400, Gerry Reno 
<greno at verizon.net> 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.
> 
> Oh please. When was the last time X wedged so the keyboard 
survived?
> Your imaginary sysadmins have to powercycle anyway.
> 
> -- Pete
> 

There's a bug with the Intel driver when DE for KWin is enabled such 
that the system eventually uses all of its available file handles and 
everything locks up with the notification of "too many open files". 
Nothing can be run since that is requires a file to be opened. 
Ctrl+Alt+Bksp is the only way I've found that "fixes" the problem 
without a reboot (other than not using DE, which is...annoying). Yes 
there is a bug open against it: 
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486695>. Anything else 
that causes similar things to happen either need a reboot without 
Ctrl+Alt+Bksp.

- --Ben
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