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From: linda w <cygwin@tlinx.org>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 00:51:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FD12801.7010203@tlinx.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bqr3lj$jl8$1@sea.gmane.org>

I don't know, but can't you remap it rather than changing the default 
X-server behavior?  Certainly
seems like something that should be user-remapable for kiosk type 
installations....can't have just
everyone going around killing off your kiosk, ya know.

Jack Tanner wrote:

> Er, so Ctrl-Alt-Backspace kills the X-server (quite efficiently, and 
> with no confirmation). This is bad (for example, when 
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace happens to match an Emacs incantation).
>
> Since Xwin plays nicely with the system tray icon for exiting, is 
> there any reason to listen for Ctrl-Alt-Backspace? I can think of two 
> reasons -- compatibility with XFree86 convention across platforms, and 
> preserving keyboard accessibility. I'm not sure that either one is 
> very important here.
>
> The least disruptive fix is probably to make Ctrl-Alt-Backspace invoke 
> the same confirmation dialog that the system tray icon invokes.
>
> Thanks,
> JT
>
>


  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-06  0:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-05 23:17 Ctrl-Alt-Backspace Jack Tanner
2003-12-06  0:51 ` linda w [this message]
2003-12-06 13:12   ` Ctrl-Alt-Backspace Alexander Gottwald
2003-12-06  5:18 ` -nounixkill doesn't seem to work (Was Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace) Igor Pechtchanski
2003-12-06 13:15   ` Alexander Gottwald
2003-12-06 18:35     ` Igor Pechtchanski
2003-12-08 11:18       ` Alexander Gottwald
2003-12-08 17:58         ` Requesting a debug XFree86 snapshot (Was Re: -nounixkill doesn't seem to work) Igor Pechtchanski
2003-12-08 19:08           ` Alexander Gottwald
2003-12-08 21:37             ` Igor Pechtchanski
2003-12-09  1:34               ` Alexander Gottwald
2003-12-18  2:58       ` -nounixkill doesn't seem to work (Was Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace) Takuma Murakami
2003-12-18  3:02         ` Harold L Hunt II
2003-12-18 17:55         ` Harold L Hunt II
2003-12-18 19:10           ` Igor Pechtchanski

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