On Saturday 28 March 2009 19:15:28 Dan Nicholson wrote:
2009/3/28 Gerry Reno <greno(a)verizon.net>:
> Dan Nicholson wrote:
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> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa(a)gmail.com>
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http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-September/038786.html
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> The poll was meaningless; that thread just captures people's
> sentiments. When the patch was committed, it was because the X
> developers had been talking about it for a long time as being the
> right thing to do.
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> The X developers had been talking about without ANY community input.
> That makes for very bad decisions. They didn't even realize that people
> expect the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to be available to them as it has for
> decades. What is left unsaid is that there a lot of emacs users in
> Xorg. Despite the fact that they sign as "a vim user", they're all
vim
> users but mostly emacs users, and that's not the same as signing "not an
> emacs user".
Please stop with the conspiracy theory. This has nothing to do with
emacs. It has everything to do with people accidentally killing their
X session. I have no idea where you've gotten the idea that this was
done for emacs users. Read Daniel's reply to you again.
--
Dan
Can someone, please, explain me what is a user trying to do when he
accidentally kills X?
And if the answer is: "Pressing all the buttons he sees", what stops the same
user from pressing reset/poweroff or even Ctrl-Alt-F4 + Ctrl-Alt-Del?
Oh and one more...
I also wonder why we don't disable Ctrl-Alt-Fn, cause a user may accidentally
switch to another vt and don't know how to come back.