F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

[psmith]

Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 21:22 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 18:26 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 15:45 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> You know the reset button on the machine resets the entire machine, right?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> No matter how fast or sloppy my typing, nor what editor I use, I'm very
>>> unlikely to accidentally reach under the desk and hit the (recessed)
>>> reset button while sitting at the keyboard, working.
>>>
>>> On many machines now, the power switch invokes a shutdown dialog,
>>> instead of simply powering the machine off with no warning--see the
>>> GNOME power-management applet's dialog.  On my wife's Dell Dimension, I
>>> haven't even been able to locate a reset button--the only thing on the
>>> front panel available to press is the power button.  No reset button on
>>> any of my laptops, either.
>>>       
>> On all machines I know of, pressing the power button for 4 seconds
>> performs a hard reset.
>>     
>
> Yes, also not likely to be done by accident.
>
>   
except by those emacs users who have admitted randomly pressing buttons 
to see what they do, you know that's how to learns computers nowadays ;-)