F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

[Callum Lerwick]

On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 10:14 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> No, Aunt Tillie is going to hit c-a-d

... Which is disabled inside X.

> or the power button

Sure hope ACPI is working...

> like she does
> in windows.  She doesn't know the difference between that and
> c-a-backspace anyway, and the only visible difference for her is that
> full reboot takes slightly longer.
> 
> > Here, how about a real life test case:
> > 
> > <snip>
> 
> Running this in rawhide doesn't do anything particularly special.  The
> app crashes, certainly, but input continues to work afterward.  Haven't
> tried with F10 yet, maybe it's worse there.

The mouse cursor disappears and becomes completely nonfunctional. Also,
you're stuck looking at the upper left 640x480 corner of the screen. For
best effect your desktop should be at ~1280x960 or more before running
the test. Note the gnome-display-properties applet doesn't even fit on
the screen.

Sure hope Aunt Tillie knows how to log out using only the keyboard. Oh
wait:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430404

Though I guess you can just wait for the timeout... (Yeah yeah,
supposedly fixed in F11 :)
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