F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

Felix Miata mrmazda at ij.net
Sun Mar 29 19:28:23 UTC 2009


On 2009/03/29 19:09 (GMT+0100) Matthew Garrett composed:

> When you have a key that's affected by modifiers, it doesn't seem 
> unreasonable for people to try hitting other modifiers as well to see 
> what they do. In my case, it was normally from flicking between
> workspaces and then going to hit backspace before I'd fully released the 
> modifiers.

Not making the modified key the last struck and first released is an
invitation for unexpected results, chaos as an expected result.
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as haste leads to poverty."	Proverbs 21:5 NIV

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