F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 11:56 -0400, Michel Salim wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at clemson.edu> wrote:
> > On many machines now, the power switch invokes a shutdown dialog,
> > instead of simply powering the machine off with no warning--see the
> > GNOME power-management applet's dialog.  On my wife's Dell Dimension, I
> > haven't even been able to locate a reset button--the only thing on the
> > front panel available to press is the power button.  No reset button on
> > any of my laptops, either.
> >
> But you can normally do a hard power-off by keeping the power button
> pressed for 4 seconds; this cuts off power rather than generating an
> ACPI event.

Yes, but by accident?  Four seconds is a long time to have to consider
lifting your finger off the button before something happens that can't
be stopped/reversed.

> 
> 
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                Matthew Saltzman

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