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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