Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
Jack Tanner
ihok@hotmail.com
Fri Dec 5 23:17:00 GMT 2003
Er, so Ctrl-Alt-Backspace kills the X-server (quite efficiently, and
with no confirmation). This is bad (for example, when Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
happens to match an Emacs incantation).
Since Xwin plays nicely with the system tray icon for exiting, is there
any reason to listen for Ctrl-Alt-Backspace? I can think of two reasons
-- compatibility with XFree86 convention across platforms, and
preserving keyboard accessibility. I'm not sure that either one is very
important here.
The least disruptive fix is probably to make Ctrl-Alt-Backspace invoke
the same confirmation dialog that the system tray icon invokes.
Thanks,
JT
More information about the Cygwin-xfree
mailing list