F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

Olivier Galibert galibert at pobox.com
Tue Mar 31 14:51:35 UTC 2009


On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 05:40:59PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Emmanuel Seyman <emmanuel.seyman at club-internet.fr> said:
> > * Arthur Pemberton [30/03/2009 23:51] :
> > > No one has describe how having this is bad design. I asked, all I have
> > > heard is because someone may accidentally press three keys
> > > concurrently.
> > 
> > That's pretty much the definition of bad design.
> 
> I've typed in a text box in Firefox and hit Ctrl+W ("erase word" for
> years on Unix systems, including older Firefox, but now "close window")
> and lost information.

With a recent Firefox, you haven't lost information.  The tab is there
in the "recently closed tabs" history menu with the text you've
entered kept.

  OG who lost a bunch of wiki input before that recently closed tabs option




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