Re: Ctrl+Alt+Backspace for newbies.



Smoot Carl-Mitchell spake thusly:

On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 18:33 +0000, Scott Beamer wrote:
Which is harder on your system when X freezes?

Ctrl+Alt+Backspace or Ctrl+Alt+Delete?

You decide. Oh wait, you can't decide this is Ubuntu...

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XorgCtrlAltBackspace


My point is that I first thought it was just "broken" for quite some
time, (till someone brought up the fact that no, it' not broken. Ubuntu
devs just decided to cripple it for you).

And I'm hardly a Linux newbie. But those who are (or Ubuntu newbies
anyway).....

In other words, this decision to disable it by default was a poor one.

Just my $.02


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