Please revert Xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

[Gerry Reno]

Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 10:04:41AM -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> These tools are broken anyway. Users can remap the sequence via xkb.
>
>   
Just because they CAN remap doesn't mean the tools are broken.

Regards,
Gerry

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