F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

Felix Miata mrmazda at ij.net
Tue Mar 31 14:22:26 UTC 2009


On 2009/03/31 12:56 (GMT+0200) Anders Rayner-Karlsson composed:

> Through past experience, I have never found an instance (since moving
> from XFree86 to Xorg) where the Xserver was wedged in a way that
> switching to a vc did not work, but C-A-Bs did.

Lucky you. Others have done Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] only to find a blank screen,
unresponsive keyboard, or horked charset making the VCs useless for recovering X.
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