[17677] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.3.28: XFree86
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Fri Mar 17 04:53:14 2000
To: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Cc: Travis C Furrer <furrer@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
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From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Date: 17 Mar 2000 04:53:05 -0500
In-Reply-To: tb@MIT.EDU's message of "16 Mar 2000 13:48:19 -0500"
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<tb@MIT.EDU> (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:
> Travis C Furrer <furrer@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > What's wrong:
> > The Ctrl-Alt-Bkspc feature is enabled (The DontZap option
> > in /etc/X11/XF86Config is not enabled).
>
> I'm not sure why that's a bad thing. Could you elaborate?
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.
My personal typing habits cause me to mistakenly hit
Ctrl-Alt-BackSpace about once every two months, even though I
know about it and try not to type it. Most of the time, the
machine has DontZap, and I don't get hurt. But users who don't
know about it will probably be more likely to hit it
accidentally. We shouldn't make it too easy for unsuspecting
users to hurt themselves.
-Jacob
