Ben Gamari (FOSS) wrote: > My completely unprofessional opinion is that Jason brings up a really > good point here. Accidentally zapping Xorg can not only be extremely > frustrating, but it could be extremely confusing for a new user. This > being said, I also agree that any change that might be zapping > unreliable or even unduly difficult is unacceptable.However, I do > believe there is a better solution than what we have presently. Ctrl, > Alt, and Backspace are usually three of the largest keys on most > keyboards and I can personally attest to the ease of triggering on some > keyboards (try typing on a laptop balanced on your knee). > > I think that requiring two presses of Ctrl-Alt-Backspace in close > succession would be perfect, so long as a tightly looping Xorg would > still register the event. Otherwise, perhaps adding Shift to the > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace combination would be a reasonable course of action so > long as it doesn't preclude any keyboards. If this too is not possible, > perhaps making use of the Pause/Break key in replacement of the > Backspace key would be workable.
Ctrl-Alt-Break would be an improvement. Apart from anything else, that isn't bound to anytyhing in Emacs (which pre-dates X, BTW). For me, if X locks up to the extent that I can't quit the WM (and thus the session) normally, it is normally locked up to the extent that Ctrl-Alt-BS doesn't work either, and I need to resort to Alt-SysRq-K. Unfortunately, that tends to leave the video card in a state where consoles don't work, but I can at least use Ctrl-Alt-Del to trigger a clean reboot. -- Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg