F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

Matthew Garrett mjg at redhat.com
Sat Mar 28 16:39:39 UTC 2009


On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:29:17AM -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:

> ... Or is there another reason?

Yes. Xorg developers are paid by Microsoft.

Seriously. ctrl+alt+backspace is about the least likely key combination 
to be accidently hit, but it's still entirely possible. Changing it to 
another set of keys doesn't actually fix things.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org




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