F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

[Casey Dahlin]

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Christopher Stone wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 03:18:29PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
>>> On 2009/03/29 19:26 (GMT+0100) Matthew Garrett composed:
>>>
>>>> I haven't seen any good suggestions.
>>> Why is the openSUSE solution posted at least twice in this thread not a "good
>>> suggestion"?
>> Because it provides no worthwhile feedback that what you've just pressed
>> is bad, and so doesn't discourage you from trying it again. It reduces
>> the probability of disaster but it's still not especially friendly.
> 
> Actually the SUSE patch emits an audible tone the first time you press
> ctrl-alt-backspace.  The tone will last for two seconds, and the user
> must press ctrl-alt-backspace again before the tone stops in order to
> kill X.
> 

I'd support this if people preferred. I know patches welcome is kind of
a crappy response, but its probably a small amount of changes. Why don't
you collect the necessary bits and get the package set up to build, then
poke the maintainer about it?

- --CJD
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