F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Wed Apr 1 04:45:17 UTC 2009


On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 16:00:17 -0400,
  Matthew Saltzman <mjs at clemson.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 19:43 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > > OK (I'm trying to picture it, and I keep seeing Rose Mary Woods
> > > demonstrating how she "accidentally" created the infamous 18-minute gap
> > > in the Watergate tapes), but it's still "unlikely" if you are typing,
> > > much more so than any Ctrl-Alt-<whatever> key combo.
> > 
> > I accidentally hit it with my foot.
> 
> Did you move the machine after that, or do you now tie your feet to the
> chair posts?

After accidentally hitting the switch on a powerstrip, I taped an angle
bracket over it so I couldn't do that again.




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