Gerry Reno wrote: > Dear Xorg community, > 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. This default > behavior has been able to be counted on by sysadmins for years as a > means of controlling the X server. It is now part of a sysadmins DNA. > This default behavior is also relied upon by many tools especially > virtualization tools which have Ctrl-Alt-Backspace embedded in their > menu options and functions for controlling a virtual machines behavior. > > I read in the Fedora Release Notes the assertions that this change was > due to users complaining about confusion regarding the control key > sequences relating to the X server. That argument was no doubt made by > some in the Emacs community who find that the Emacs key sequences are > similar to the Xorg sequences. I will tell you that this argument about > confusion is totally bogus from an entire Linux community standpoint. > The Emacs community is miniscule in size comparison to the overall Linux > community. In over thirty years of working with *nix systems and > thousands of users and machines not once has a user ever complained > about confusion or problems involving the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace key > combination. I am concerned because it appears that a tiny minority of > Emac users have managed to lobby for a very significant change in > default behavior for X server control to the detriment of the majority > of users and administrators in the Linux community. Already there are a > number of angry threads popping up around the internet related to this > issue. Please look at this particular thread that I started in the > Fedora Development forum: http://marc.info/?t=123818605400006&r=2&w=2 > > 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.
Two things. First, I hate Emacs too. Second, you can disable the DontZap server flag in xorg.conf with something like: Section "ServerFlags" Option "DontZap" "false" EndSection ~ C. _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
