Poll: Should Xorg change from using Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to something harder for users to press by accident?

[olafBuddenhagen at gmx.net]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 02:52:42PM +1030, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 02:55:00AM +0200, olafBuddenhagen at gmx.net
> wrote:

> > I don't know whether this is really related (I'm pretty sure I
> > experienced that with kbd driver as well), but the fact that zap
> > depends on xkb is actually quite problematic: When the xkb map is
> > somehow borked, the server still starts, but it's not possible to
> > zap (nor to switch console)... This gets really ugly when no other
> > means to exit the server is available :-)
> 
> You're saying a broken installation causes certain features to not
> work? :)

Well, the point is that the zap is often the only way out when something
goes wrong, so it's particularily unfortunate when it breaks...

> If the xkb map is broken that usually means the server has a bug (->
> bugs.fdo.org) or xkeyboard-config is wrongly installed -> install it
> correctly (from git).
> 
> with either a released server and even git master there's no reason
> why the xkbmap should be busted.

Actually, a wrong/outdated xorg.conf is sufficient to break zapping.
Seen that more than once.

-antrik-