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From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] DontZap and Ctrl+Alt+Bs
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:45:10 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tkrat.424844ab7be568c8@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090724122828.2a0a0e02@zaphod.digimed.co.uk>

On 24 Jul, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:16:34 +0300 (EEST), Igor Nemilentsev wrote:
> 
>> > complain to the fedora idiots who thought that zapping is not needed
>> > anymore?  
>>   I don't know but do fedora's developers have an very serious
>>   influence on  Xorg development ?
> 
> According to man xorg.conf, DontVTSwitch and DontZap both default to off.
> I can see the use for such options, when you don't want your users
> exiting X or even specific programs, but the default seems sensible. Is
> it just Fedora that change the defaults?

No, it's Gentoo itself.
Running xorg-server-1.6.2-r1 (+hal)

It seems a 'hal' 'feature' see the post of Igor this morning,
Helmut.


-- 
Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany



  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-24 11:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-24  7:01 [gentoo-user] DontZap and Ctrl+Alt+Bs Igor Nemilentsev
2009-07-24  7:13 ` Helmut Jarausch
2009-07-24  8:44   ` Igor Nemilentsev
2009-07-24 20:05     ` Skippy
2009-07-24 20:35       ` [gentoo-user] " ABCD
2009-07-24 20:56       ` [gentoo-user] " Igor Nemilentsev
2009-07-28 11:23         ` Skippy
2009-07-28 11:26           ` Alan McKinnon
2009-07-28 12:35             ` Skippy
2009-07-28 14:11           ` Helmut Jarausch
2009-07-24  7:44 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-07-24  7:58   ` Dale
2009-07-24 11:16   ` Igor Nemilentsev
2009-07-24 11:28     ` Neil Bothwick
2009-07-24 11:45       ` Helmut Jarausch [this message]
2009-07-24 11:53       ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-07-24 12:32         ` Stroller
2009-07-24 17:00           ` [gentoo-user] " ABCD
2009-07-24 13:08       ` [gentoo-user] " Igor Nemilentsev

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