Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Alpha (blink)

[Jason Farrell <farrellj gmail com>]

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com> wrote:

Antonio Olivares (olivares14031 yahoo com) said:
> You are probably not killing anything, since X is not starting :)
> You are only(my guess*) is restarting the X server via CTRL + ALT + BS

Right, but he says that X was crashing. If it crashes, there's nothing
there to listen for the ctrl-alt-backspace and do anything about it...

I think we all know he meant frozen X VS a crash loop, pedant. :)

Just because upstream changed the DontZap default doesn't mean Fedora won't patch it back to working how just about everyone *wants* it to work. In fact, I'd bet on it, because it would reflect poorly on Fedora if they *didn't* patch it. Keeping ctrl-alt-backspace around provides way more benefit to Fedora's main audience than it does in protecting the rare desktop user from accidentally discovering this killer keycombo.

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Jason