F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Tue Mar 31 15:28:28 UTC 2009


Robert Marcano wrote:
> yes, It is bad design, If you have a very common key combination that
> a lot of people knows, (I am talking about Ctrl+Alt+Del to open the
> login prompt on Windows)

This is not Window$.

Ctrl+Alt+Del shouldn't be expected to do anything other than reboot on
GNU/Linux. (And FWIW, I think the Ctrl+Alt+Del reboot should also be
enabled in X11.)

        Kevin Kofler




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