F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
Adam Williamson
awilliam at redhat.com
Fri Mar 27 20:45:16 UTC 2009
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!
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