F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Sat Mar 28 18:51:25 UTC 2009


On 03/27/2009 09:28 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 20:15:39 -0800,
>    Jeff Spaleta<jspaleta at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Pete Zaitcev<zaitcev at redhat.com>  wrote:
>>> Oh please. When was the last time X wedged so the keyboard survived?
>>> Your imaginary sysadmins have to powercycle anyway.
>> Better yet, when is it not better to use SysRq keycombos and try to
>> diagnose things?
>> If you can get back keyboard control via SysRq, isn't it more
>> beneficial to make use of SysRq instead of zapping?
>
> Not if you are just trying to get your system to boot up. Currently I have
> to restart X a couple of times on average before I get a login screen.
> Eventually I shouldn't have to do that, but for now I have to live with

I imagine that trying to diagnose the problem a little and filing a bug 
will lead to you having to live with that behavior for much less time 
than just leaving it to chance that eventually someone will randomly fix 
your precise issue.




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