On Tuesday 31 March 2009 11:50:00 Michal Hlavinka wrote: > On Tuesday 31 March 2009 11:27:15 Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > Christopher Stone wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > >>> c-a-bs to me is an "ejection seat button" > > >>> => disabling it is not helpful > > > > ... > > > > > I was just thinking it would be cool if c-a-bs would send you to a > > > virtual console and open up a text confirmation dialog box. Dunno if > > > something like that is possible though. > > > > As I previously wrote, to me such proposals are in the same class as: > > "Do you really want to eject? Enter root password to eject, confirm > > ejection ... ejection will be started in 60 secs ..." > > > > It voids "c-a-bs" as a means of "emergency button". They are meant to > > prevent _further_ damage in situations of emergencies and aren't > > necessarily guaranteed to "not cause damage". > > Yes, I agree, completely. When something starts to eat all resources, you > can kill it (with whole X server if it's not the X server eating all). You > definitely have no time to switch to vt, log in and kill it... Exactly! > I think disabling c+a+bs is really wrong decision :( I don't care if we have control+alt+backspace or control+shift+alt+f5+backspace+* but I want to have it enabled by default. Jaroslav > > ... -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
