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[Jeff Lane <jeffrey.lane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: xorg

I do not recall the discussion about WHY Ctrl-Alt-Backspace was
disabled, but It would be super nice if we could re-enable that by
default.  Expecting users to just reboot their machine, or drop to a
shell and manually restart X whenever X goes wonky is a bit much.

For example, I'm currently doing Natty certification testing across a
LOT of laptops and I've encountered SEVERAL systems where eventually I
needed to restart X because the display just died (usualy this is a
result of trying the various resolutions supported by the video card).

in every case, I'm forced to drop to a shell and manually kill X, where
a Ctrl-Alt-Backspace would have been sufficient.  The key combo is
probably as likely to be hit accidentally as Ctrl-Alt-Del is, and I
can't see any real arguments against not allowing this by default.

Yes, one answer is that users can re-enable it if they wish, but when
i'm installing and testing and re-installing nearly 100 systems,
manually re-enabling this on every one every time I re-install is not
viable.  Yeah, that's just me, but I  know I'm not the only Ubuntu user
in that situation.

** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/774173

Title:
  It would be SO very nice if you would please re-enable Ctrl-Alt-
  Backspace by default.