Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 11:02:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Luke Dean <LukeD@pobox.com> To: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shutting down X with control+alt+backspace Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906071054450.66946@border.lukas.is-a-geek.org> In-Reply-To: <4A2BEA9F.2040009@otenet.gr> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906052240310.52250@border.lukas.is-a-geek.org> <4A2A1A30.30000@otenet.gr> <4A2BEA9F.2040009@otenet.gr>
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On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Manolis Kiagias wrote: >> Luke Dean wrote: >> >>> This is an answer to a question I started to post, but then decided to >>> research instead. I know many readers of this list use the feature I'm >>> describing. >>> >>> When Xorg was upgraded to version 7.4, the historic ability to shut >>> down X >>> with Control+Alt+Backspace became a non-default option. The solution to >>> re-enabling this behavior was to add >>> Option "DontZap" "off" >>> to the ServerLayout or ServerFlags section of xorg.conf as documented in >>> a note in the Handbook >>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html >>> >>> A few days ago, x11/xkeyboard-config was upgraded to 1.6 and the solution >>> in the Handbook is no longer sufficient. >>> >>> The new solution that gets Control+Alt+Backspace working for me >>> again is to add >>> Option "XKbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" >>> to the "InputDevice" section of xorg.conf. >>> >>> >> >> Thanks for mentioning this. I have not yet upgraded to the new version >> of xkeyboard-config, but will try this and update the Handbook accordingly. >> >> > > This gets even more complicated - the setting in xorg.conf will only be > effective when "AutoAddDevices" is false (or "AllowEmptyInput" is > false). On systems that totally rely on HAL for device detection, the > setting has to be moved to an XML file like this: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <deviceinfo version="0.2"> > <device> > <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keyboard"> > <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">kbd</merge> > <merge key="input.xkb.Model" type="string">pc105</merge> > <merge key="input.xkb.Layout" type="string">us</merge> > <merge key="input.xkb.Rules" type="string">xorg</merge> > <merge key="input.xkb.Options" > type="string">terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp</merge> > </match> > </device> > </deviceinfo> > > which should be named i.e. keyboard.fdi and placed in > /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy > > In light of the above, I feel we probably need to add a section on > "Configuring Additional Options Using HAL" to the Handbook. Oh, okay. I'm not running HAL and I do have "AllowEmptyInput" and "AutoAddDevices" off, so just modifying the xorg.conf was enough for me. So far I've avoided HAL because it seems complicated and scary, and I don't know what the benefits of using it would be aside from some automounting tricks that I can live without. It does seem to be the wave of the future however, so any documentation that might help ease me into that transition would be appreciated.
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