F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

[Ben Boeckel]

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Michal Hlavinka wrote:

> 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 :(
> 
>> ...
> 

And if those resources are open files? You don't know until it's already 
happened afaik. I think zapping should be enabled, but a more obscure 
key combination may be necessary to prevent accidental triggers.

- --Ben
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