F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
Matthew Garrett
mjg at redhat.com
Sun Mar 29 18:09:48 UTC 2009
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:02:33AM -0700, Christopher Stone wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Rahul Sundaram
> <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > Then, you might as well as stop running any Linux distribution. Matthew
> > Garett code is in not optional in Linux.
>
> Does not compute. How can someone who is allegedly intelligent not
> understand the difference between typing ctrl-alt-backspace and rm?
> Both could potentially cause data loss, so why remove one and not the
> other?
>
> Maybe mister smarty can explain that to the list?
Ctrl+alt+backspace is a single key away from various other commonly used
combinations - outside the emacs universe, a bunch of the gnome
shortcuts are ctrl+alt+something, and ctrl+backspace is "delete previous
word". When you have a key that's affected by modifiers, it doesn't seem
unreasonable for people to try hitting other modifiers as well to see
what they do. In my case, it was normally from flicking between
workspaces and then going to hit backspace before I'd fully released the
modifiers.
rm -fr / is rather a large number of keystrokes away from pretty much
anything else you might want to do.
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