F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
>> Rodd Clarkson wrote:
>>> I'm figuring that something should be attempted so that we don't have to
>>> go through this conversation a third time when f11 is released. ;-]
>>
>> I think that's just futile. The only way NOT to have those threads spring up
>> like mushrooms is to reenable that feature by default.
>
> No, the right solution is to examine the cases for why people were
> using the key before, and come up with a design which addresses them.
> This may involve writing *new code*, as opposed to e.g. just turning
> on whatever code happens to exist now elsewhere (referring to the
> kernel sysrq key).
>
> While I think it's crazy to have a magic key combination which
> instantly logs you out without any confirmation, it'd be very useful
> to have some kind of "oh crap" key to recover from things like a
> wedged fullscreen application, stuck X server grab, etc.


You know the reset button on the machine resets the entire machine, right?


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