Poll: Should Xorg change from using Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to something harder for users to press by accident?
Jason Spiro
jasonspiro4 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 22 20:09:35 PDT 2008
Igor Mozolevsky <igor <at> hybrid-lab.co.uk> writes:
> CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE is just the way to do it
OK. That's one "no" vote, duly noted. Thank you for your vote.
I will now respond to the rest of your comments.
> just because users
> incompetently press the combination, doesn't mean it's a bad one.
I respectfully disagree. Accidental zaps often cause data loss. Data loss is
always unacceptable and Xorg should do whatever it takes to prevent it.
> Besides, pressing that combo requires some effort, I really can't see
> how one could do it "accidentally"!
Please see http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10510 then
scroll down to the "== Example evidence ==" section. Or see
http://www.google.com/search?q=accidentally+hit+%7C+press+%7C+hitting+%7C+pressing+control+%7C+ctrl+alt+backspace+x%7Cxorg
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