Summary: | Control-Alt-Backspace should be enabled by default | ||
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Product: | xorg | Reporter: | propalo |
Component: | Server/General | Assignee: | Xorg Project Team <xorg-team> |
Status: | RESOLVED NOTOURBUG | QA Contact: | Xorg Project Team <xorg-team> |
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
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Description
propalo
2011-08-17 11:13:02 UTC
> The Control-Alt-Backspace key combination to restart the X server was changed > to the more unlikely combination Right-Alt+K+SysRq. Not by us - if someone did that, it's your distro. The upstream change simply didn't map it by default, with an easy option to restore it if desired: http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/xorg-docs/input/XKB-Config.html#zap http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/04/zapping-server.html > The Control-Alt-Backspace key combination to restart the X server was
> changed to the more unlikely combination Right-Alt+K+SysRq.
Alt-SysRq+k is not an X server command, but instead a Linux kernel
MAGIC_SYSRQ keystroke for Secure Access Key (SAK), which ‘kills all
programs on the current virtual console’.
Cf the Documentation/sysrq.txt file in the linux src.
That SAK happens to kill the X server is a coincidence.
Your actual complaint is that C-A-BS was disabled by default.
(MAGIC_SYSRQ has been around almost since the beginning.)
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