On 28 Mar 2009, David Miller said: > From: Gerry Reno <gr...@verizon.net> > Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:01:46 -0400 > >> Yes, this was all discussed in the thread. Of course you can put >> things in xorg.conf. So revert this huge change and let the >> relatively small community of Emacs users put whatever they need in >> xorg.conf and thereby you don't end up changing default behavior for >> the entire overall Linux community and that has been counted on by >> users and sysadmins for near forever. > > emacs users don't typically have permissions to modify xorg.conf, > whereas sysadmins do
Also, who the hell relies on this behaviour? Nobody that I know of. It's very occasionally useful if you only have one machine and X has frozen but has *not* crashed nor locked up the whole box, but this is exceptionally rare: the grab-breaking keys are much more often useful (and even they are useful so rarely that I can never remember what they are when I need to use them). If you happen to be using a system so unstable that forcibly killing X from the keyboard is a useful behaviour, then turn DontZap off again. Changing one line in a config file is *not* a catastrophically hard change for you to make. (Oh, and, btw, my mother once killed X accidentally thanks to this feature, and I can guarantee that she is *not* an Emacs user! This really did hurt random users, and gave X a slight impression of instability: "you can crash it with a keystroke", sort of thing.) -- `We must stand together and fight for our shared cultural heritage as a group of people who cannot stand together to fight for our shared cultural heritage.' --- jspaleta on Balkan balkanization _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list xorg-devel@lists.x.org http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel