Re: Killing X, was Re: I screwed up gdm3, can't recover

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

Quoting David Wright (deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk):
> I think X made this change several years/Debian distributions ago.

Just some clarification for off-list replies:

http://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R7.0/doc/html/Xorg.1.html
The special combinations of key presses recognized directly by Xorg
are:
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
    Immediately kills the server -- no questions asked. This can be
    disabled with the DontZap xorg.conf(5x) file option. 

http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/man/man1/Xorg.1.html
The special combinations of key presses recognized directly by Xorg
are:
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
    Immediately kills the server -- no questions asked. This is
    disabled by default. It can be enabled with the -retro command
    line flag or by setting the DontZap xorg.conf(5) file option to a
    FALSE value. 

It's 100% clear that Xorg made the change. It would be stupid of
Debian to set a trap with CtrlAltBackspace for anyone who knew how
X11R7.5 should behave by default.

Cheers,
David.