Announcing Fedora 11 Alpha (blink)

Michal Jaegermann michal at harddata.com
Fri Feb 6 02:30:02 UTC 2009


On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 08:05:34PM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
> 
> So, are they serious about removing ctl+alt+backspace, and if so, is
> there a replacement? 

$ man xorg.conf
....
       Option "DontZap"  "boolean"
              This disallows the use of the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace sequence.  That
              sequence  is  normally  used to terminate the Xorg server.  When
              this option is enabled, that key sequence has no special meaning
              and is passed to clients.  Default: off.
....

So we are really talking here only about setting a totally backwards default.
Whomever came up with that bright idea appears to have an extremely limited
exposure to a real-life PC hardware.

Another "replacement" is your power button.

   M.




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