Please revert Xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
Matthew Garrett
mjg at redhat.com
Sat Mar 28 09:07:02 PDT 2009
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.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
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