Re: F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

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Gerry Reno wrote:
Patrick W. Barnes wrote:
I have to agree with Jesse on this. It sounds like you are getting a lot more exercise than a SysAdmin should. ;-)

I am surprised that you have so many systems on which this is apparently a problem and yet you do not do provisioning where a simple config change would resolve it. Even without provisioning for installs, any config provisioning would easily handle this.

I am also a SysAdmin, and I do (very rarely) use this key combination, but certainly not often enough to see this as a big deal. There are soooo many ways around this change and around the need for the key combination in the first place.
This is a big deal because now some tiny minority has lobbied for changes to X that end up affecting a large community. And the bogus arguments about user getting confused about keys is just that totally bogus. I've never had a user complain about X control key combinations. Emacs users complain because Emacs wants to have the same key control sequences as Xorg. That's just wrong. And as a sys admin if you're not willing to stand up and say that's wrong, then watch for more ridiculous changes coming your way in the future.

I wish you luck in your upstream fight

There shouldn't even need to be a fight. It's a totally ridiculous change based on bogus arguments to begin with.



And a few more angry threads are starting to pop up here and there as word of this is getting out:

http://www.linux-archive.org/kubuntu-user/265174-restarting-x-server.html



Regards,
Gerry

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