Announcing Fedora 11 Alpha (blink)

Shawn Badger badger.shawn at gmail.com
Fri Feb 6 03:22:25 UTC 2009


On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:25 PM, John Summerfield <
debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:

> Jesse Keating wrote:
>
>>
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>
>  X Server
>
> The key combination Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill the X server has been
> disabled by default. To get this behaviour back, add the the line
>
> Option "DontZap" "false"
>
> The time people find this has the wrong setting and that they need to
> change it us when the GUI has frozen and control-alt-bs doesn't work. They,
> they will assume it's just too frozen.
>
> Please make this default to "true." False _might_ be okay in RHEL, but I
> have my doubts even then. At least the audience is different and the
> arguments for "false" a little stronger.
>
> contrl-alt-backspace is way better than the reset button (if it exists) or
> the power switch, and those are the next choices for the trapped user or
> sysadmin.
>
>
>  Cheers
> John
>

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I agree with John on this statement. Please don't disable this feature by
default. After all what is the purpose of disabling such a great feature?
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