Announcing Fedora 11 Alpha (blink)

Antonio Olivares olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 6 13:32:08 UTC 2009


--- On Thu, 2/5/09, Michal Jaegermann <michal at harddata.com> wrote:

> From: Michal Jaegermann <michal at harddata.com>
> Subject: Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Alpha (blink)
> To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Thursday, February 5, 2009, 6:30 PM
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 08:05:34PM -0500, Scott Robbins
> wrote:
> > 
> > So, are they serious about removing ctl+alt+backspace,
> and if so, is
> > there a replacement? 
> 
> $ man xorg.conf
> ....
>        Option "DontZap"  "boolean"
>               This disallows the use of the
> Ctrl+Alt+Backspace sequence.  That
>               sequence  is  normally  used to terminate the
> Xorg server.  When
>               this option is enabled, that key sequence has
> no special meaning
>               and is passed to clients.  Default: off.
> ....
> 
> So we are really talking here only about setting a totally
> backwards default.
> Whomever came up with that bright idea appears to have an
> extremely limited
> exposure to a real-life PC hardware.
> 
> Another "replacement" is your power button.
> 
>    M.
> 
> -- 

or the famous KEYS windows users have used(self included), 
CTRL + ALT + DELETE

or will those be taken away too?

Regards,

Antonio 


      




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