On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:25:25AM -0700, Christopher Stone wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > How did you learn to use a computer? I did it mostly by trying random >> > things to see what they did. >> >> How many times did you hit ctrl-alt-backspace before you realized you >> shouldn't be pressing that key combination at random? > > Twice - the second time to see if this bizarre behaviour was > reproducible. > >> Did you do a lot of really important work first and not save it before >> you started pressing random keys to test and see what they do? > > No, I lost no significant amount of useful work. But I also spent some > time wondering why Linux needed a "Throw my work away without > confirmation" hotkey. The times I've hit it by accident /since/ then > have occasionally led to me losing something useful. Yes, there should be a confirmation key, like an additional key press after the ctrl-alt-bksp. I have used software that has ctrl/alt-ins/del combination (sdlmame from rpmfusion). I've never once hit ctrl-alt-backspace by mistake, but I could see it happening. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
