On Fri, September 30, 2005 10:31 am, John Carter wrote: > On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Stephen Irons wrote: > >> Volker Kuhlmann wrote: >> >>> I'm afraid the ctrl-alt-bacjspace has been a feature of Linux X11 for >>> well over a decade, and at times a very useful one too. > > I dare say it has been. > > I'm also sure I read about it a decade ago. > > What I probably stored in my mind was "Don't do that unless X > freezes solid". > > Since X hasn't ever frozen solid on me, I didn't. > > For a decade. > > Until I forgot it's very existence. > > Bugger. > >> Was it Raskin who said (paraphrased from memory) that the ease of doing >> an >> action should be related to the ease with which it can be undone? > > Which reminds me, unless, like me, the effect of the Vulcan nerve > pinch cntrl-alt-del is welded into your brain, you may choose to edit > /etc/inittab and do something different with the lines... > > # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. > ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now > > Since I use it whenever I explicitly want to reboot, which is about > once or twice and installation and I tend to do installs for various > people quite often, I won't forget it. > > Sorry guys, cntrl-alt-backspace is just bad UI design. I love Linux > and all it stands for. But it does have the odd wart that deserves to > be called a wart and removed.
Given that X11 is a few years older than Xemacs, isn't this rather chicken and egg? And how can ctrl-alt-del be ok, but ctrl-alt-bs not? Steve. -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what?
