F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

Bill Crawford billcrawford1970 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 30 12:23:37 UTC 2009


On Saturday 28 March 2009 04:15:39 Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Oh please. When was the last time X wedged so the keyboard survived?
> > Your imaginary sysadmins have to powercycle anyway.
>
> Better yet, when is it not better to use SysRq keycombos and try to
> diagnose things?
> If you can get back keyboard control via SysRq, isn't it more
> beneficial to make use of SysRq instead of zapping?

Fedora has been disabling the "magic SysRq" by default for several years?




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