On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 11:43:44AM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Bruno Wolff III (bruno@xxxxxxxx) said: > > I use Ctrl Alt BS a lot, as X crashes for me when starting up over half the > > time. Sometimes I need over a half dozen restarts before X starts up > > successfully. While I could do multiple telinits, Ctrl Alt BS is a lot faster. > > Not to be too pedantic, but if X crashes, what exactly are you > killing with ctrl-alt-backspace? > Ah, but if X freezes, or there's a keyboard and/or mouse issue--there are a variety of places where it's useful, especially for a system that boots into X by default. I'm a bit surprised that it's an upstream decision. Folks, I know it's the sort of thing that can send people into a rage, but if we start insulting each other, that is the quickest way to close each other's minds. Maybe if we ask nicely, the Fedora developers can consider changing the default. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Angelus: 'Dear Buffy...' Hmmm. I'm still trying to decide the best way to send my regards. Spike: Why don't you rip her lungs out? That might make an impression. Angelus: Lacks... poetry. Spike: Doesn't have to. What rhymes with lungs? -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
