Jason Spiro wrote: > What do you think? Should Xorg change this key sequence? Please vote > "yes" or "no". You can add comments too. If you reply only to me by > private mail, I will eventually summarize your reply to the list.
Since I do testing on new drivers it would be inconvenient for me. I still absolutely think that xorg should change or disable this key binding by default. When I started using Linux I wanted to try out compiz which uses CTRL-ALT-MOUSE1 to spin the cube with the mouse. I tried all kinds of key combinations to figure out how to rotate the cube with the keyboard. At this point I accidently found ALT-CTRL-BACKSPACE and I did loose data. For me personally, that wasn't so bad because I did not loose any important data and to be honest I've come to like this restart feature a lot. Many other users would not appreciate it though (I think). Ubuntu already had a discussion on this actually and I think they agreed that doing a confirmation UI in GTK would have reverse dependencies (bad) and doing a non-GTK UI would be ugly, so I think they settled on trying to make a delay required by default (i.e. so that they user had to hold CRTL-ALT-BACKSPACE for a few seconds before the machine zaps X). I think making the keybinding configurable would make sense but I also think it should be turned off or have a delay by default. Martin _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg