Adam Williamson wrote:

On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 16:31 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:

I was reading through the F11A Release Notes when I came across this:

    "The key combination Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill the X server has 
been disabled by default as a decision of the upstream Xorg project."

Having to deal with many servers and workstations in a company it is 
crucial that Ctrl-Alt-Backspace be enabled by default.  There are times 
when your KVM has lost mouse control or X is in a tight loop and 
something like Ctrl-Alt-Backspace can save the situation.  This is much 
more common than the uncommon cases that are illustrated as to why this 
has been removed as default.

Ctrl-Alt-Backspace needs to be restored as the "default" and Emacs users 
or others that find themselves in conflict with Java expressions can 
just disable it for their very limited purpose.


aaaaaaagh, here comes the zombie thread again...run! run for your lives!

Well, sorry, didn't mean to hit some nerve. But, having Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is critical to system admins and most users. Only Emacs users have a problem with this and they are how much of the total distro population? (two fingers pinched). All the virtualization tools rely upon Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to restart X and you'll find it on all their menues. Regards, Gerry