Please revert Xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

Gerry Reno greno at verizon.net
Fri Mar 27 18:30:44 PDT 2009


David Miller wrote:
> From: Michael <macallan at netbsd.org>
> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:25:55 -0400
>
>   
>> On Mar 27, 2009, at 9:16 PM, David Miller wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> From: Gerry Reno <greno at verizon.net>
>>> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:13:14 -0400
>>>
>>>       
>>>> So fine. The Emacs user can open a ticket and their sysadmin will
>>>> change their xorg.conf.  The point is that the change needs to stay
>>>> on the side of the relatively small Emacs community and not on the
>>>> side of the huge overall Linux community.
>>>>         
>>> I think you'll find more than emacs users are happy with the
>>> change.
>>>       
>> I have yet to meet any of these mythical creatures.
>>     
>
> I have more than once accidently hit those keys and lost all of my
> work.
>   

User training required.
And so we should make some huge change in default behavior for the 
entire overall Linux community because *you* accidentally hit some keys? 
Are you kidding me?

Regards,
Gerry

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