[Gllug] Odd laptop resolutions and Xorg

[Nix]

On 29 Apr 2009, Matthew King uttered the following:

> Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> writes:
>
>> defaults should be fine (modulo endless flamewars about the DontZap
>> option, which some few people would have us believe is critical to
>> disable as zapping your X server without warning is used by everyone on
>> Earth on a daily basis, and only a conspiracy of Emacs users would think
>> otherwise. When several X developers point out that they think the zap
>> key is harmful and they use vi, they're promptly accused of being
>> closeted Emacs users! Ridiculous...)
>
> I sometimes zap X to get it out of a hard loop (which happens sometimes
> because I run an unstable distribution), but mostly it serves as a slap
> around the face to remind me not to just hit the keyboard without thinking.

Personally I flip over to the emergency monitor attached to the other
machine and kick up gdb on it when that happens: can't have it happening
again, must report it :)

> I also use both emacs and vi (real vi), so what does that make me?

A member of the conspiracy, but not a full-fledged one. I probably count
as a full-fledged one, as I can't stand real vi (the bleeding *cursor
keys* don't work: join the 1980s already) and its more advanced commands
fall out of my head all the time.

But I've never killed X by hitting M-C-BS at the same time while trying
to do a backward-kill-sexp: PC keyboards are notoriously bad at that
sort of triple-chord anyway, so I always use ESC C-BS, which doesn't
kill anything.

(I *have* killed X simply by missing keys, because on my keyboard
backspace, ctrl and alt are all next to each other in a line...)
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