[Data Loss] Ctrl+Alt for switching workspaces is a bad choice.
Bug #184911 reported by
Nat Tuck
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Ctrl+Alt+Bksp forcibly kills the X server. This is a good key combo for an operation that causes you to lose all your work because it is hard to hit by mistake.
But... Ubuntu maps Ctrl+Alt+Left Arrow and Ctrl+Alt+Right Arrow to switching workspaces. That means that Ctrl+Alt is pressed frequently in normal use, so Ctrl+Alt+Bksp becomes a *single key* mistake rather than a 3 key mistake.
Ctrl+Alt+Bksp has been the standard "forcibly kill the X server" combo basically forever, so that can't really change. But that does mean that Ctrl+Alt is basically taken as the exceptional key combo, and shouldn't be used for anything normal (like workspace switching).
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there is a blueprint suggesting the ctrl-alt-backspace should be disabled by default
It might be useful to add your comment to this blueprint