Comment 16 for bug 90434

to add some real life context; practically all programs dealing with text have support for ctrl-backspace:

i'm editing text in Firefox (while i'm typing this)? .. it's there
i'm editing text in OpenOffice? .. it's there
i'm editing code in Emacs? .. it's there
i'm chatting with someone on MSN (Pidgin)? .. it's there
i'm chatting with someone on IRC (X-Chat)? .. it's there

"this 'linux thing' sucks! .. it crashes(?) for no reason at all, and i wasn't even doing anything exciting; just editing text .. rofl!"

..and i _know_ this isn't just me .. i've been using this 'linux thing' since 1998 and this has _always_ been a pesky annoying issue that never ever seems to go away permanently

.. i've added "dontzap" to that xorg.conf file (or whatever it used to have as name before xorg) so many times i've lost count .. and i've seen and read so many others get hit by this nonsense "feature" too

so please, please, fix already! .. it's easy to fix manually, but it gets tiresome "re-fixing" time and time again

at least..while you're arguing for something "permanent", make the default keycombo something not so close to the commonly used ctrl-backspace combo .... :(