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On Freitag 24 Juli 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:16:34 +0300 (EEST), Igor Nemilentsev wrote: |
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> > > complain to the fedora idiots who thought that zapping is not needed |
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> > > anymore? |
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> > |
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> > I don't know but do fedora's developers have an very serious |
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> > influence on Xorg development ? |
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> According to man xorg.conf, DontVTSwitch and DontZap both default to off. |
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> I can see the use for such options, when you don't want your users |
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> exiting X or even specific programs, but the default seems sensible. Is |
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> it just Fedora that change the defaults? |
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no, they changed the default from DontZap false to DontZap true. And all of |
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its proponents are fedora/redhat devs. Because ctrl+alt+backspace is bad for |
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emacs users (wtf? I have used emacs in the past - never a problem) or poor |
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stupid people hit it accidentally (and what happens when you do it in |
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windows?). So they changed this eternal old default. No matter that it is |
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extremly usefull to quickly kill a misbehaving X - or as a nice way to log out |
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of kde/gnome/whatever without having to click some confirmation first. |
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of course - ubuntu was happy about the change. But ubuntu is made for ... |
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grrrrrr |
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