Please revert Xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

[Stefan Dirsch]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 02:00:29PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > And all the votes in the thread were "NO" for changing the behavior.   
> > Only the poller favored making any change.  So why did all these "NO"'s  
> > end up as a change in default behavior?
> 
> Because we discussed it before (about ten times, actually), and came to
> a sensible conclusion which is not going to be changed, no matter how
> many individuals come forward claiming to represent the universal view
> of the entire Linux userbase.

Well, I would have preferred to apply Luc's patch for ZapWarning

  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18076

and let the distributor decide whether to enable it by default via
xorg.conf. SUSE enables it by default since some time now, although at
the beginning the user acceptance for this change was actually *very*
low. We also needed to add this change in behaviour to our release
notes. Therefore I was *very* surprised to see upstream X.Org making
DontZap the default.

Best regards,
Stefan

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