Re: How to implement alternate zap key idea

2008-10-03 Thread Harald Braumann
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:22:47 +0100 David Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/9/23 Jaymz Julian [EMAIL PROTECTED]: FWIW, I tend to kill X not with ctrl-alt-bs but by going to a non-X console with ctrl-alt-F2 and sudo pkill Xorg. I suppose that's a bit Linux/FreeBSD-specific, of course.

Re: How to implement alternate zap key idea

2008-09-23 Thread William Tracy
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Corbin Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or, to put it another way, distros should default to DontZap, except for Gentoo. :3 I've had to use ctrl+alt+backspace fairly often in the past due to buggy window managers. (I'm looking at you, Enlightenment.) Or due to

Re: How to implement alternate zap key idea (was: Re: Poll: Should Xorg change from using Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to?something harder for users to press by accident?)

2008-09-22 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 04:39:49AM +, Jason Spiro wrote: Thanks for the info. 1. So I guess when using evdev, a way to implement my Ctrl+Alt+Bksp then Ctrl+Alt+Y idea would be this?: Ctrl+Alt+Bksp should latch some new modifier called ctrl_alt_bksp_was_pressed, and Ctrl+Alt+Y should zap

Re: How to implement alternate zap key idea

2008-09-22 Thread Corbin Simpson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Spiro wrote: Plus, due to the psychological effect called groupthink, people who would have said yes are now less likely to admit it to the entire list, since IIRC three have already said no and only one (me) has said yes. :( Ctrl+K+X