Please revert Xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
Peter Hutterer
peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Tue Mar 31 16:00:41 PDT 2009
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:39:48PM -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
> In reading the Release Notes for the Alpha version of Fedora 11 I
> noticed a very disturbing change involving disabling the default
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace behavior of killing the X server.
[...]
> I am asking Xorg to immediately reconsider its decision with respect
> to this change in default behavior regarding Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. Please
> revert this change.
The "correct" solution would be to control zapping through xkb rulesets.
Currently, the default symbols include the action Terminate_Server on
Backspace. Removing this sym from the defaults and providing it through an xkb
option allows C-A-B to be activated at runtime. It also means you can remap
zapping to whatever key combo needed.
The patches required for this are:
- xkeyboard-config needs to remove Terminate_Server from the default symbols
and provide it through a set of options.
- the server needs to re-enable zapping and require the xk-c release.
This is not particularly high on my TODO list, but feel free to submit
patches. Note that xkb had a major cleanup since server 1.6. I encourage you
to work against git master if you want to get this change in.
Cheers,
Peter
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