<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Adam Williamson wrote: <blockquote cite="mid1238186716.4338.69.camel@adam.local.net" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 16:31 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I was reading through the F11A Release Notes when I came across this: "The key combination Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill the X server has been disabled by default as a decision of the upstream Xorg project." Having to deal with many servers and workstations in a company it is crucial that Ctrl-Alt-Backspace be enabled by default. There are times when your KVM has lost mouse control or X is in a tight loop and something like Ctrl-Alt-Backspace can save the situation. This is much more common than the uncommon cases that are illustrated as to why this has been removed as default. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace needs to be restored as the "default" and Emacs users or others that find themselves in conflict with Java expressions can just disable it for their very limited purpose. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> aaaaaaagh, here comes the zombie thread again...run! run for your lives! </pre> </blockquote> <tt>Well, sorry, didn't mean to hit some nerve. But, having Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is critical to system admins and most users. Only Emacs users have a problem with this and they are how much of the total distro population? (two fingers pinched). All the virtualization tools rely upon Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to restart X and you'll find it on all their menues. Regards, Gerry </tt> </body> </html>