F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

Matthew Garrett mjg at redhat.com
Sun Mar 29 17:51:00 UTC 2009


On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:46:10AM -0700, Christopher Stone wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Matthew Garrett <mjg at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 06:33:29PM +0100, psmith wrote:
> >
> >> but who on earth can press those three keys by mistake? you'd have to be
> >> dumb, so the data loss point is moot, anyway if x locks up and zap is
> >> disabled your going to lose the data in a reboot anyway unless you have
> >> re-compiled the kernel and turned on the sysreq keys
> >
> > Then I must be dumb. If that's the case, I recommend not running any
> > software I contribute to.
> 
> Yes, please give a list so I can be wary of that software.

The kernel, X, hal, gnome, vbetool, pm-utils, network-manager, a bunch 
of minor contributions to other things.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org




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