F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Wed Apr 8 21:39:24 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 13:37 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 10:14 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > No, Aunt Tillie is going to hit c-a-d
> 
> ... Which is disabled inside X.

Strange, it sure seems to pop up a powerdown dialog for me.  Although
the original point was about stuck grabs, so, fair enough.

> > or the power button
> 
> Sure hope ACPI is working...

If the EC doesn't respond, the keyboard controller sure as hell isn't
going to.

> > Running this in rawhide doesn't do anything particularly special.  The
> > app crashes, certainly, but input continues to work afterward.  Haven't
> > tried with F10 yet, maybe it's worse there.
> 
> The mouse cursor disappears and becomes completely nonfunctional. Also,
> you're stuck looking at the upper left 640x480 corner of the screen. For
> best effect your desktop should be at ~1280x960 or more before running
> the test. Note the gnome-display-properties applet doesn't even fit on
> the screen.

I bet that's fixed with this build:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1286108

- ajax
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