F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

Gerry Reno greno at verizon.net
Fri Mar 27 20:31:25 UTC 2009


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.

Regards,
Gerry




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