F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Tue Mar 31 09:52:23 UTC 2009


Giancarlo Niccolai wrote:

> 
> Good computing => "least surprise effect".
> People coming from windows => ctrl+alt+<fumble>bs  "OH CRAP --- I am so 
> XXXX I forgot to save my work files in 15 Word (ops, Openoffice) windows 
> in the past 3 days!!!!"
And where is the problem? These people have just been through an 
elementary lesson on difference of OSes in a violent way.

Or to put it conversely: Who do these windoze newbies think they are to 
throw away a well-known and valuable feature has been around for 15 
years or more?

Ralf






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