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 _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
