Please revert Xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

Peter Åstrand astrand at cendio.se
Sat Mar 28 00:51:29 PDT 2009


On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Stefan Dirsch wrote:

> Well, I would have preferred to apply Luc's patch for ZapWarning
>
>  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18076

How about a solution where you need to press and hold Ctrl-Alt-Backspace 
for several seconds? That should prevent most if not all mistakes, while 
still preserving the functionality. It also resembles forced shutdowns 
using the ATX power button.

Rgds, 
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