Please revert Xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists at gmail.com
Fri Mar 27 18:54:17 PDT 2009


2009/3/27 Gerry Reno <greno at verizon.net>:
>
> And how does this at all justify thrusting a huge unneeded change on the
> overall Linux community?  In over thirty years of working with *nix systems,
> never once has a user complained that Ctrl-Alt-Backspace has caused them any
> problems.  It's one thing to make a change in response to a documented need,
> and it's quite another to let some minority group dictate a change that
> causes a huge change for the overall majority.  This change is just wrong.
> It cannot be justified.  I see nothing anywhere on the internet or in the
> threads calling for such a change.  And if it was a true problem you would
> find references to it.

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-September/038786.html

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Dan


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