My first DontZap use case while testing F11 beta

[psmith]

David wrote:
> On 4/7/2009 4:31 PM, Paul Wouters wrote:
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>> My first fedora 11 beta run-in with not having dontzap set to false.
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>> I have a dual twin setup. This already requires an xorg.conf file,
>> because in the no-config running, xorg decides you want to only use
>> one of the two screens it finds. I don't know why, I consider it a bug.
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>> I configure it to have dual screen. When I login, my window manager dies
>> on me. My gnome panel only works in my left screen, but anything I
>> select pops up on the right screen, out of focus. I can move my mouse
>> into the other screen but I cannot get any focus. So I cannot get to a
>> terminal or any other application.
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>> So I ctrl-alt-f2. Now my left monitor goes into standby mode and my
>> right monitor just shows a blinking cursor. The same for all VC's except
>> alt-f7 which brings me back to my broken X session.
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>> I had to login via ssh to fix my machine, because I could not restart X.
>> Indeed, i did not have sysrq enabled yet, that's disabled per default it
>> seems.
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>> +1 for reverting to the old behaviour of having ctrl-alt-backspace kill
>> the current X session.
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> Sorry Paul. But it does not look like, from what I read here, that there
> will be a vote on this. It appears that you, and all others, have two options.
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> 1: Live with it as default 'off'.
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> 2: Change it to 'on' to suit yourself.
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> Great thing about Linux. You can do pretty much just as you wish.
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> Good luck.
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the vote was taken in secret by the xorg folks a while ago, real 
community spirit in action!

phil