Please revert Xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

[Matthew Garrett]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 10:04:41AM -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:

> Something like this suggestion by Peter or even hitting 
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace TWICE would also do it because then all the current 
> tools with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace in their menues would still work.  To send 
> that sequence to the VM from a VMM such as virtmanager you would just 
> issue the sequence twice.  And that way, you don't need to have 
> thousands of organizations modifying their xorg.conf for various 
> installations, modifying their training, etc.  And Emacs users won't 
> "accidentally" hit the key sequence necessary to kill X.

These tools are broken anyway. Users can remap the sequence via xkb.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org