F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Sat Mar 28 18:42:49 UTC 2009


Once upon a time, Joonas Sarajärvi <muepsj at gmail.com> said:
> I think leaving the zap function disabled is very much in line with
> the general character of Fedora. In past, we have many times replaced
> old, de-facto ways of doing things with new, innovative solutions and
> decision.

Yes, but this is a case of replacing an old, de-facto way of doing
things with nothing.  Now, if your X server is hosed, you hit the reset
switch.

> Especially now that
> this isn't even a Fedora decision but an upstream one, it would in my
> opinion seem a bit odd if Fedora did override that decision.

This is a configuration item, and plenty of configuration items are
changed from upstream defaults.

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
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