F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

Gerry Reno greno at verizon.net
Fri Mar 27 21:52:12 UTC 2009


Christopher Aillon wrote:
>
> Also, won't Ctrl+Alt+<Fn> still work to get you to a vt where you can 
> at your choice kill X manually, or try to debug the problem further?
>

 From a previous post in thread:
Just how do I sent that to a VM from a VMM? Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is the 
menu selection. And this behavior has been a part of X as I said, for 
decades.

Many tools have already embedded Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and they count on 
it's availability to function.

Regards,
Gerry




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