F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
Matthias Clasen
mclasen at redhat.com
Fri Mar 27 22:10:42 UTC 2009
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 17:52 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
> Christopher Aillon wrote:
> >
> > Also, won't Ctrl+Alt+<Fn> still work to get you to a vt where you can
> > at your choice kill X manually, or try to debug the problem further?
> >
>
> From a previous post in thread:
> Just how do I sent that to a VM from a VMM? Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is the
> menu selection. And this behavior has been a part of X as I said, for
> decades.
>
> Many tools have already embedded Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and they count on
> it's availability to function.
So whoever wrote those tools confused a configurable keybinding with a
supported api. It certainly highlights why it is a good idea to turn it
off by default: it is a loaded weapon that random clients can use to
kill your session.
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