Please revert Xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

[Stefan Dirsch]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 01:13:39AM -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
> The solution used by OpenSUSE as I understand it, calls for a default of  
> enabled but requires the user to press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace twice within  
> two seconds and the first press emits a tone and you must press the  
> sequence a second time while the tone sounds.  This would at least keep  
> the key stroke available by default, would work with present tools which  
> have Ctrl-Alt-Backspace on their menues, and would prevent any of these  
> "accidental" pressings of Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.

Yes, that's correct.

> And yet, we hear nothing about this solution from Xorg. 

Obviously it's not appreciated, but maybe you can convince some more
distributors to apply it. Seems to be more promising than to discuss
it with X.Org developers here.

Best regards,
Stefan

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