F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

[psmith]

Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:25:25AM -0700, Christopher Stone wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Matthew Garrett <mjg at redhat.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> How did you learn to use a computer? I did it mostly by trying random
>>> things to see what they did.
>>>       
>> How many times did you hit ctrl-alt-backspace before you realized you
>> shouldn't be pressing that key combination at random?
>>     
>
> Twice - the second time to see if this bizarre behaviour was 
> reproducible.
>
>   
>> Did you do a lot of really important work first and not save it before
>> you started pressing random keys to test and see what they do?
>>     
>
> No, I lost no significant amount of useful work. But I also spent some 
> time wondering why Linux needed a "Throw my work away without 
> confirmation" hotkey. The times I've hit it by accident /since/ then 
> have occasionally led to me losing something useful.
>
>   
it's not a "throw away my work without confirmation key" (well it is for 
those stupid/blind/lazy enough to hit it by mistake but i digress) and 
i'd thank you to stop trying to portray it that way to get your change 
to stick (it's clearly obvious that you think this change is necesary), 
it's a save me from re-booting my pc when x totally screws up, and yes 
regardless of your coding prowess it still does screw up!