F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 06:14:15PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> said:
> > So whoever wrote those tools confused a configurable keybinding with a
> > supported api.
> 
> I don't believe that the Zap function is a configurable keybinding.  It
> can only be triggered by Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.

You believe wrongly. It's the Terminate_Server symbol, and you can bind 
it to whatever you want with XKB.

Now, arguably, a better approach would have been to leave DontZap as the 
default but remove the Terminate_Server entry from the default XKB maps. 
That would let clients rebind it if they want to, which can be done 
without requiring administrative privileges.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org