Comment 25 for bug 642792

Oli [2010-10-04 11:42 -0000]:
> While I can see the technical argument for making alt trigger the
> alternate key, the solution in the latest kernel is at least 10 years
> too late.

I don't believe that Maverick's kernel changed anything in that
regard; the SysRq key functionaly has been pretty much the same since
Linux' inception. It's more likely that something changed in X.org or
the desktop environments.

> It's also well known that if you want sysrq, you use control+alt+prscr.

Where is that documented? It's at least news to me.

> I assume this key-combo is also broken now (or it renders as
> control+sysrq).

At least here it works just like alt+sysrq, i. e. actually triggers a
sysrq.

> Everything about this stinks to me and I think we should fight upstream
> all the way on this, disabling the new kernel configuration by default.

Do you have proof (or a patch) which would actually identify this as a
kernel change? That would be helpful to actually understand what's
going on here. Thanks in advance!

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