How to implement alternate zap key idea

Corbin Simpson mostawesomedude at gmail.com
Mon Sep 22 22:13:49 PDT 2008


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Jason Spiro wrote:
> Plus, due to the psychological effect called "groupthink", people who would have
> said "yes" are now less likely to admit it to the entire list, since IIRC three
> have already said "no" and only one (me) has said "yes".  :(

Ctrl+K+X may not work on some keyboards. Ctrl+Alt+Z, Ctrl+Alt+A,
Ctrl+Alt+P may be a legitimate sequence in some program.

We are not talking about a reboot, we are talking about killing, and
optionally restarting, the graphics subsystem. This is not something any
casual user should *ever* have to do. Ever. If somebody *needs* to kill
X using an emergency key combo, and they are not devs, then something is
wrong somewhere down the line.

Or, to put it another way, distros should default to "DontZap", except
for Gentoo. :3

(And Slackware, and Arch, and LFS. Sheesh.)

~ C.

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~ Corbin Simpson
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