F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Tue Mar 31 16:41:48 UTC 2009


Robert Marcano wrote:
> I was not saying to make Ctrl+Alt+Del works like Windows, I am saying
> Del is very near to Backspace, and when someone see a screensaver
> locked up X session, one of the first thing they try is control + alt
> + del to login, and a simple finger mistake and your session goes
> down.

Then they're already screwing up because this is not Window$, so they
shouldn't press Ctrl+Alt+Del in the first place.

This is actually an argument for mapping Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot even in X11,
it'd make them lose that habit pretty quickly. :-p

        Kevin Kofler




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