F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

Callum Lerwick seg at haxxed.com
Fri Mar 27 23:30:37 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 19:09 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
> Callum Lerwick wrote: 
> > Seriously, how braindead is it to not having *some* reliable way to
> > trigger a reboot without needing a working monitor or network
> > connection? (Or working keymap...) If you're going to kill ctl-alt-bksp,
> > you damn well better enable ctl-alt-del while X is running. (Why was
> > THAT ever disabled in the first place?)
> >   
> lobbying by the same tiny minority.

Somehow I doubt that. IIRC it's been like this since at least XFree86
3.3 in 1997 when I first started using Linux.
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