Ctrl-Alt-Backspace change

[Matthias Clasen]

On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 03:03 -0500, Christopher Beland wrote:
> Some people on this list have requested additional information about
> this change be added to the release notes, but I'm not sure how to do
> this.  This page is supposed to explain the process of producing
> release notes:
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/ReleaseNotes/Process
> 
> The confusing part is that I cannot find any links that page or
> anywhere under https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject to the
> Fedora 11 Alpha Release Notes
> (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Alpha_release_notes, found
> with Google).  Should the notes be linked in, or are Rawhide notes
> intentionally hidden?
> 
> The process page says that the Alpha release notes are supposed to
> have a link to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_Beats
> soliciting contributions, but there is no such link.
> 
> Most importantly, it's also very unclear where to update content at
> the moment.  If you edit the Alpha release notes directly, will this
> change make it into the final release notes?  The process page seems
> to imply that release notes simply summarize or are pulled from the
> Beats page, but there isn't any information in the Xorg beat about
> this change (and I don't think there ever has been).

That is because, just like you, I couldn't really figure out the process
I was expected to follow, and just added the section to the alpha
release notes directly.

> <<
> 
> If /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not exist, create it by running this command
> as root:
> 
>  Xorg -configure
> 
> The Xorg project has changed the default DontZap setting to "true"
> after complaints from desktop users that accidentally hit
> Ctrl+Alt+Backspace when trying to type Alt+Backspace, Ctrl+Backspace,
> or Shift+Backspace, or who had StickyKeys enabled.  Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
> is also a keyboard shortcut for deleting certain expressions in C and
> Java modes in Emacs.
> 
> <<
> 
> Is that correct?

Sounds very good to me.