F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

Gerry Reno greno at verizon.net
Fri Mar 27 23:38:22 UTC 2009


Gerry Reno wrote:
> Patrick W. Barnes wrote:
>> I have to agree with Jesse on this.  It sounds like you are getting a 
>> lot more exercise than a SysAdmin should.  ;-)
>>
>> I am surprised that you have so many systems on which this is 
>> apparently a problem and yet you do not do provisioning where a 
>> simple config change would resolve it.  Even without provisioning for 
>> installs, any config provisioning would easily handle this.
>>
>> I am also a SysAdmin, and I do (very rarely) use this key 
>> combination, but certainly not often enough to see this as a big 
>> deal.  There are soooo many ways around this change and around the 
>> need for the key combination in the first place.
>>   
> This is a big deal because now some tiny minority has lobbied for 
> changes to X that end up affecting a large community.  And the bogus 
> arguments about user getting confused about keys is just that totally 
> bogus.  I've never had a user complain about X control key 
> combinations.  Emacs users complain because Emacs wants to have the 
> same key control sequences as Xorg.  That's just wrong.  And as a sys 
> admin if you're not willing to stand up and say that's wrong, then 
> watch for more ridiculous changes coming your way in the future.
>
>> I wish you luck in your upstream fight
>
> There shouldn't even need to be a fight.  It's a totally ridiculous 
> change based on bogus arguments to begin with.
>
>

And a few more angry threads are starting to pop up here and there as 
word of this is getting out:

http://www.linux-archive.org/kubuntu-user/265174-restarting-x-server.html



Regards,
Gerry




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