F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

[Matthew Garrett]

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:25:25AM -0700, Christopher Stone wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Matthew Garrett <mjg at redhat.com> wrote:
> > How did you learn to use a computer? I did it mostly by trying random
> > things to see what they did.
> 
> How many times did you hit ctrl-alt-backspace before you realized you
> shouldn't be pressing that key combination at random?

Twice - the second time to see if this bizarre behaviour was 
reproducible.

> Did you do a lot of really important work first and not save it before
> you started pressing random keys to test and see what they do?

No, I lost no significant amount of useful work. But I also spent some 
time wondering why Linux needed a "Throw my work away without 
confirmation" hotkey. The times I've hit it by accident /since/ then 
have occasionally led to me losing something useful.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org