Comment 5 for bug 429635

As the ever-quotable mjg said about the Xorg kill keycombo:
"Everyone involved agreed that not having a keystroke that caused
 immediate data loss was a sensible idea." --Matthew Garrett

If you leave things as they are, you are doing precisely this--leaving a keystroke that causes immediate data loss. What's more, the key is *right next to the screen brightness buttons*. I've hit this key accidentally several times in the last few months, with the aforementioned consequences.

This needs high-priority and *some* sort of fix (make the switch work properly, make it not crash the machine, or make it not work at all), and it needs it before Karmic hits gold.