F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

[Michal Hlavinka]

On Tuesday 31 March 2009 11:27:15 Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Christopher Stone wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> writes:
> >>> c-a-bs to me is an "ejection seat button"
> >>> => disabling it is not helpful
> ...
> > I was just thinking it would be cool if c-a-bs would send you to a
> > virtual console and open up a text confirmation dialog box.  Dunno if
> > something like that is possible though.
>
> As I previously wrote, to me such proposals are in the same class as:
> "Do you really want to eject? Enter root password to eject, confirm
> ejection ... ejection will be started in 60 secs ..."
>
> It voids "c-a-bs" as a means of "emergency button". They are meant to
> prevent _further_ damage in situations of emergencies and aren't
> necessarily guaranteed to "not cause damage".

Yes, I agree, completely. When something starts to eat all resources, you can 
kill it (with whole X server if it's not the X server eating all). You 
definitely have no time to switch to vt, log in and kill it...

I think disabling c+a+bs is really wrong decision :(

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