On Saturday 28 March 2009 09:31:29 Arthur Pemberton wrote:
Could someone please explain what's going on. The only
documentation
in Fedora i see about this decision is in the F11 alpha release notes.
Maybe everyone reads them but me, however it would be nice if these
kind of significant changes were announced.
Its been said that this decision was taken upstream. My initial
Googling shows this first being brought up as an idea in Ubuntu [1]
where it is shown as implemented. It is later shown as a secret poll
on the freedesktop list [2]. Is there any reason the Xorg maintainer
in Fedora didn't make us aware of that all this was going on?
Aren't the release notes expected to be read upon release, when it is
way to late to give input? I don't agree that adding a paragraph or
two in the release notes are good enough for changes that effect
everyone. Xorg seems especially guilty of making significant changes
which are later just discovered by users.
[1]
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/xorg-ctrl-alt-backspace
[2]
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-September/038786.html
On 3/27/09, Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net> wrote:
> Once upon a time, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta(a)gmail.com> said:
>> Better yet, when is it not better to use SysRq keycombos and try to
>> diagnose things?
>> If you can get back keyboard control via SysRq, isn't it more
>> beneficial to make use of SysRq instead of zapping?
>
> Well, that's disabled by default also.
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> I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
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And the most funny thing is, the secret polls result was *no*
The poll was started on "Mon Sep 22 19:41:16 PDT 2008"
And on " 2008-10-07 23:30:05 (GMT)" Daniel Stone committed the "Make
DontZap
the default" patch.
P.S. yes, I'm one of the guys for whom sometimes Ctrl-Alt-Fn doesn't work,
but Ctrl-Alt-Backspace does.
P.P.S. google for <"Daniel Stone" fedora>