Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 10:26:40 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> To: Luke Dean <LukeD@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shutting down X with control+alt+backspace Message-ID: <4A2A1A30.30000@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906052240310.52250@border.lukas.is-a-geek.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906052240310.52250@border.lukas.is-a-geek.org>
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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.
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