F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
Bill Crawford
billcrawford1970 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 31 10:23:00 UTC 2009
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 05:49:07 Tom Lane wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> writes:
> > c-a-bs to me is an "ejection seat button"
> > => disabling it is not helpful
>
> I like that analogy. Or maybe a better one is to those fire
> extinguishers you see behind little glass doors in every public
> building --- you know, "In case of emergency, break glass".
>
> X.org has decided that it would be a safety feature to install
> shatterproof glass in those boxes.
No, they've taken the box away. That's the point.
Shatterproof glass is the "you have to press it twice" or "you have to hold it
down for four seconds".
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