F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Fri Mar 27 22:59:49 UTC 2009


On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Gerry Reno <greno at verizon.net> wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>
>> No one has yet said what is supposed to happen when X on a desktop
>> inevitably starts with the incorrect resolution. At the very least I
>> could restart X easily. Now I need to log in then restart X? And what
>> about regular users? Do I have to now instruct them to login as root
>> and kill X?
>>
>>
>
> I'm trying to understand how the problem of bad config relates to this xorg
> disabling Ctrl-Alt-Backspace discussion?  I mean I could remotely login into
> the users terminal and fix their xorg.conf and then just tell them to hit
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and that should fix them up and if not I'll kill their X
> server.  Or is there some other situation you're referring to?
>
> Regards,
> Gerry

I am referring to Bug #490082 which requires (apparently) every Fedora
install which boots with the monitor off to restart X somehow.
Removing Cltr+Alt+Backspace makes this bug even more annoying.

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