F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

[Callum Lerwick]

On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 09:53 +0200, Giancarlo Niccolai wrote:
> Good computing => "least surprise effect".
> People coming from windows => ctrl+alt+<fumble>bs  "OH CRAP --- I am so 
> XXXX I forgot to save my work files in 15 Word (ops, Openoffice) windows 
> in the past 3 days!!!!"

Openoffice has autosave/crash recovery, so this would not happen.

> People knowing their systems and just upgrading => x blocked =>  
> ctrl+alt+bs ... ctrl+alt+bs... "what the..." ... CTRL+ALT+BS. "OH SHIT 
> -- I got to hard reboot loosing all the work on console sessions and 
> possibly fucking up that crap of XXXX filesystem the installer forced me 
> to use!!!!"

Ctrl-alt-bs doesn't reboot the kernel so your filesystem loss scenario
is at odds with reality.
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