Re: gdm submission

[Sam Vilain <sam hydro gen nz>]

"Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox@mail.bhi-erc.com> writes:

> Ctrl-Alt-Del for login was/is always a bad idea. In all operating systems
> BUT winblowz (Or should that be OT old technology) ctrl alt delete reboots
> the computer. This is an expected thing. If you hit ctrl alt del and it does
> something different it confuses people. Microsoft in the different windows
> changed what control alt delete does 3 different times. Lets not get into
> that habbit. Why would any one want to hit control alt delete to login when
> you can just be prompted by a nice pritty login box right away?

The idea is that during the login session Ctrl-Alt-Delete will ALWAYS
pop up a Windows NT Security dialogue, and outside of login sessions
Ctrl-Alt-Delete will ALWAYS popup a login prompt.  This avoids the
possibility of a user setting up a trojan login prompt.

I can see the logic, but ctrl-alt-delete is perhaps a bad choice :-)
<blatant-anti-ms>It's probably something to do with users being so
familiar to using the keypress.</blatant-anti-ms>

But then, what key sequence DO you use?  And how do you ensure that
the X server doesn't remap it during the session?
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