Please revert Xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
Gerry Reno
greno at verizon.net
Sat Mar 28 07:04:41 PDT 2009
Peter Åstrand wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
>
>> Well, I would have preferred to apply Luc's patch for ZapWarning
>>
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18076
>
> How about a solution where you need to press and hold
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace for several seconds? That should prevent most if
> not all mistakes, while still preserving the functionality. It also
> resembles forced shutdowns using the ATX power button.
>
> Rgds, ---
> Peter Åstrand ThinLinc Chief Developer
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Something like this suggestion by Peter or even hitting
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace TWICE would also do it because then all the current
tools with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace in their menues would still work. To send
that sequence to the VM from a VMM such as virtmanager you would just
issue the sequence twice. And that way, you don't need to have
thousands of organizations modifying their xorg.conf for various
installations, modifying their training, etc. And Emacs users won't
"accidentally" hit the key sequence necessary to kill X.
Regards,
Gerry
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