F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

[Bill Crawford]

On Monday 30 March 2009 23:35:14 Robert Marcano wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Emmanuel Seyman
>
> <emmanuel.seyman at club-internet.fr> wrote:
> > * Arthur Pemberton [30/03/2009 23:51] :
> >> No one has describe how having this is bad design. I asked, all I have
> >> heard is because someone may accidentally press three keys
> >> concurrently.
> >
> > That's pretty much the definition of bad design.
>
> yes, It is bad design, If you have a very common key combination that
> a lot of people knows, (I am talking about Ctrl+Alt+Del to open the
> login prompt on Windows), and another one Ctrl+Alt+Backspace where
> Backspace and Del are very near each other on many keyboards. This
> case is extreme on my laptop (thinkpad) Del is just over Backspace,
> and I have seen a few people, try the Ctrl+Alt+Del sequence on
> screensaver locked sessions

So, to come back to an argument oft-repeated in this context ... how hard would 
it be for users who need this change to just put something in xorg.conf or 
remap the "zap" key combination?