Comment 24 for bug 90434

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Raptor Ramjet <email address hidden>wrote:

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> The correct way to handle this would have been for the desktop state to
> be saved when the three keys are pressed to end the X session. Then
> when X is restarted you could be prompted as to whether you wish to
> recover the session.

lol .. and this would be implemented how? "Zap" is pretty much an instant ..
hard .. process .. kill. It kills Xorg and takes all the child processes
down with it. Do you understand what this implies?

Stuff like Firefox has a "Would you like to restore the tabs of your
previously "crashed" session?" feature, but, uh ....

> On which note I use the Ctrl+ALt+Left and Ctrl+ALt+Left combinations all
> the time and I have never "inadvertently" managed to kill X by pressing
> backspace to delete text in an editor.

Right. There's a chance there are other people than you out there. People
with different keyboard layouts, who use different software which use the
CTRL-ALT-and-a-key-close-to-backspace keycombo often.

FInally I have to use this key combination every single day as Xorg does
> not recognise my monitor correctly and I have to keep giving X the "3
> finger salute" (mark 2) to get a usable X (it gets there eventually)

Maybe what's causing this should be fixed instead?

> If you can't manage not to type this key combination then you really
> should question whether you're able to use a computer at all.

lol. Yeah, it would perhaps have been better to have one require to hold the
keys down for a few seconds before it triggered, but I'm not going to make
an ass out of myself by _assuming_ this would be trivial to implement just
because I think it would be a better idea.

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Lars Rune Nøstdal
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