CyberOrg <cyberorg <at> opensuse.org> wrote: > > Since openSUSE 11.0 users have to hit ctrl+alt+backspace twice quickly > to kill X.
That's a better idea than my original idea, since users who see that Ctrl+Alt+Bksp isn't working may figure that X is responding slowly, so they may press ctrl+alt+bksp several more times repeatedly. It looks like OpenSuse have done it by adding a patch "zap_warning_xserver.diff" to the xorg-x11-server package. It makes Xorg recognize a new xorg.conf file option, "ZapWarning". When ZapWarning is on, pushing Ctrl+Alt+Bksp once emits a two-second long beep; pushing Ctrl+Alt+Bksp again within two seconds kills Xorg. Developers all hate it, because they need to kill X often. Most users don't mind it; a few have complained, but not that many. I am sure the users who are saved from data loss because of it are very happy with it. A few people complained that the beep is too annoying. The solution to that would be to edit the patch to make it less annoying.[1] How could I get the Xorg project to accept the ZapWarning patch, preferably with ZapWarning enabled by default? Should I simply attach a copy of the patch to a new Bugzilla bug and hope for the best? Regards, Jason ^ [1]. The ideal would be to reduce the loudness of the beep. Reducing the first parameter (loudness) to the xf86SoundKbdBell call in the patch should do that, but I don't know if it would work on all PCs. Does it? If it indeed doesn't work on all PCs, reduce the pitch to a low sound (maybe an octave or two below the middle "C" note) instead. Or emit eight very short beeps, maybe 0.05 s long; emit one every quarter-second. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
