F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

[Matthew Garrett]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 10:55:37AM -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:

>    I've opened a thread on xorg-devel and have been getting nothing but
>    ridiculous arguments in response.  Mostly like, "well *I* accidentally
>    killed my X server while I was typing".  Total nonsense.  This is all
>    about a tiny minority of Emacs users, mostly inside Xorg itself
>    introducing a change that has a large to impact to the overall Xorg
>    community and all for the benefit of just the tiny Emacs community.  That
>    completely wrong and is bad stewardship.

Ctrl-Alt-Backspace was changed because of... a conspiracy of secret 
emacs users?

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