F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

Callum Lerwick seg at haxxed.com
Sun Mar 29 18:28:09 UTC 2009


On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 16:39 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:29:17AM -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> 
> > ... Or is there another reason?
> 
> Yes. Xorg developers are paid by Microsoft.

I was thinking more along the lines of "omg security!" or "Our software
is PERFECT you have no need to kill it!".

> Seriously. ctrl+alt+backspace is about the least likely key combination 
> to be accidently hit, but it's still entirely possible. Changing it to 
> another set of keys doesn't actually fix things.

What, emacs users are going to accidentally hit
lctl-rctl-lshift-rshift-lalt-ralt-backspace too?
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