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.
>
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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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