F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Mon Mar 30 10:30:01 UTC 2009


Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 19:26 +0400, Suren Karapetyan wrote:
> 
>> Can someone, please, explain me what is a user trying to do when he 
>> accidentally kills X?
>>
>> And if the answer is: "Pressing all the buttons he sees", what stops the same 
>> user from pressing reset/poweroff or even Ctrl-Alt-F4 + Ctrl-Alt-Del?
> 
> In emacs, Ctrl-Alt-\ means indent the selected region according to style
> rules for the type of file being edited (very useful), and Ctrl-Alt-End
> does something related to emacs-Lisp programming (less useful, IMO).
> Both \ and End are right next to Bksp on my laptop keyboard, but only
> the \ is at risk on my desktop keyboard.

I guess; I never even knew Ctrl-Alt-\ (indent-region) was there, instead using
C-Alt-q (bound to c-indent-exp for C, (indent-pp-sexp for lisp, etc) for everything
I need when programming.  They seem to do the same thing.

Andrew.




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