[2936] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Rationale for X-server kill discrepancy?; also mwm vs. sawfish
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Sun Sep 9 17:33:36 2001
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
Cc: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
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From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Date: 09 Sep 2001 17:33:28 -0400
In-Reply-To: John Hawkinson's message of "Thu, 6 Sep 2001 13:34:27 -0400 (EDT)"
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<jhawk@MIT.EDU> (John Hawkinson) writes:
> Principal request: Can we enable the X server kill functionality on
> Athena linux machines? It would restore parity with the IRIX machines
> and make it easier to deal with this case a bit faster.
There was some discussion on this in bugs, in Spring 2000.
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My opinion on the matter [bugs:17677] was:
I think Travis's point was not "do we want to have a keystroke
that kills the X server?", but was instead "do we want to have the
keystroke that kills the X server to be so easy to mistakenly hit?"
The Irix machines have a "kill the X server" key combination
that is near-impossible to accidentally type. The Linux key
combination is so easy to accidentally type that it should be
disabled.
For everyone except jhawk, the problem-solving technique for Suns
is already "reboot if there's an X problem". I don't mind the
Intel machines having the same solution. (It would be nice to be
able to make use of the alternate VT's, but I understand why
they're turned off right now.)
-Jacob
