F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

[Callum Lerwick]

On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 14:49 -0700, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> On 03/27/2009 02:28 PM, Adam Miller wrote:
> >> This change to default behavior of Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is an example of a tiny minority of Emacs users lobbying xorg for a change that will affect a huge number of community and commercial>users including datacenters and their sys admins. This change needs to be reversed immediately. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is embedded now into many tools including all the virtualization tools. It is>part of the DNA of every sys admin. To change this behavior is just insanity.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Gerry
> >
> > Please stop throwing around the "sys admins will freak out" card, I'm
> > a sys admin and we do things correctly through provisioning using
> > kickstarts. It will be maybe a 3 line edit to a script. It was an
> > upstream choice, Fedora has historically remained compliant with
> > upstream so I imagine if you would like a change to be made on this
> > topic it would be most effective to discuss it with upstream.
> 
> 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?

Not if your console is f*cked up and you just want the f*cking machine
to reboot cleanly. Perhaps the bug here is that the X server deactivates
ctl-alt-del. Or do the emacs weenies want that one too?
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