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Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
- From: Jack Tanner <ihok at hotmail dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 18:07:57 -0500
- Subject: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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