[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 11979] New: Default keyboard shortcut for the logoff dialog

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https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11979

            Bug ID: 11979
           Summary: Default keyboard shortcut for the logoff dialog
    Classification: Xfce
           Product: Libxfce4ui
           Version: 4.12.1
          Hardware: PC (x86_64)
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Medium
         Component: General
          Assignee: nick at xfce.org
          Reporter: lpancescu at gmail.com
                CC: hjudt at xfce.org, xfce-bugs at xfce.org

For quite some time, Fedora has been shipping XFCE with a Fedora patch adding
Ctrl-Alt-L as a default keyboard shortcut for xfce4-session-logout
(unfortunately, this doesn't appear to have been discussed with the XFCE
project).  After XFCE closed bug #10728, the XFCE build provided by Fedora 22
ended up with the same keyboard shortcut being assigned to different actions,
xfce4-session-logout and xflock4.  Pressing Ctrl-Alt-L in the Fedora 22 XFCE
Spin seems to randomly choose between showing the logout dialog and locking the
screen (the latter is pretty annoying when you are in a hurry to reboot).

Of course, this is a Fedora problem [2], and it probably needs to be fixed
there.  Would you perhaps consider adding a default keyboard shortcut for
xfce4-session-logout?  Then Fedora could simply adopt that, without any custom
patches carrying the risk of future conflicts.

Currently, XFCE maps both Ctrl-Alt-Delete and Ctrl-Alt-L to xflock4.  Perhaps
Ctrl-Alt-Delete would be a good candidate for triggering xfce4-session-logout
instead?  This would be consistent with the behavior in Gnome 3, KDE and even
Windows: you can use Super-L to lock the screen and Ctrl-Alt-Delete to invoke
some sort of logoff or poweroff dialog in both Gnome 3 and Windows (at least in
2000 and XP); Gnome migrated many of the older shortcuts using Ctrl-Alt to use
Super [1], which is easier to type (especially for users with disabilities),
but I think Ctrl-Alt-L continues to lock the screen in Gnome and probably KDE.

[1]
https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/shell-keyboard-shortcuts.html.en
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229218

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