Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+Alt+bksp in Xorg

2009-10-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 26 October 2009 23:07:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 27 October 2009 00:45:07 Mick wrote: I have been trying to get this to work for some time now. I have followed this upgrade guide and modified my /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-xinput-configuration.fdi to include merge

Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+Alt+bksp in Xorg

2009-10-27 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 27.10.2009 02:03, schrieb Dale: This is the sequence you tried I hope. This is copied from a message sent to me a loong time ago. Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The usual full sequence is R-E-I-S-U-B Yes, it is. But after E there is only darkness and no

Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+Alt+bksp in Xorg

2009-10-27 Thread he zhitong
if you are using gnome, gnome-keyboard-properties may helps. in the Layouts tab, there's a Layout Options button. click it and choose the Control + Alt + Backspace in Key sequence to kill the X server it seems setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp helps, too. ps: I'm new to this

Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+Alt+bksp in Xorg

2009-10-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 27 October 2009 08:39:44 Mick wrote: Thanks Alan, I can't see mine being that different to be honest, other than using the file /../policy/10-xinput-configuration.fdi instead of your /../policy/10-x11-input.fdi to make these entries. Would that be important? Not as far as I

Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+Alt+bksp in Xorg

2009-10-27 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 27.10.2009 10:31, schrieb he zhitong: if you are using gnome, gnome-keyboard-properties may helps. in the Layouts tab, there's a Layout Options button. click it and choose the Control + Alt + Backspace in Key sequence to kill the X server it seems setxkbmap -option

Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+Alt+bksp in Xorg

2009-10-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Sebastian Beßler writes: Am 27.10.2009 02:03, schrieb Dale: This is the sequence you tried I hope. This is copied from a message sent to me a loong time ago. Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The usual full sequence is R-E-I-S-U-B Yes, it is. But

[gentoo-user] Ctrl+Alt+bksp in Xorg

2009-10-26 Thread Mick
I have been trying to get this to work for some time now. I have followed this upgrade guide and modified my /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-xinput-configuration.fdi to include merge key=input.xkb.options type=stringterminate:ctrl_alt_bksp/merge This didn't work, so I looked further and found out

Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+Alt+bksp in Xorg

2009-10-26 Thread Zeerak Waseem
try adding this to your xorg.conf: Section Serverflags Option DontZapFalse EndSection On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:45:07 +0100, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I have been trying to get this to work for some time now. I have followed this upgrade guide and modified my

Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+Alt+bksp in Xorg

2009-10-26 Thread Mick
On Monday 26 October 2009 22:55:39 Zeerak Waseem wrote: try adding this to your xorg.conf: Section Serverflags Option DontZapFalse EndSection Thanks, but without a xorg.conf file I found through some experimentation that the solution is to add: merge

Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+Alt+bksp in Xorg

2009-10-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 27 October 2009 00:45:07 Mick wrote: I have been trying to get this to work for some time now. I have followed this upgrade guide and modified my /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-xinput-configuration.fdi to include merge key=input.xkb.options type=stringterminate:ctrl_alt_bksp/merge

Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+Alt+bksp in Xorg

2009-10-26 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 27 October 2009 00:45:07 Mick wrote: I have been trying to get this to work for some time now. I have followed this upgrade guide and modified my /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-xinput-configuration.fdi to include merge key=input.xkb.options

Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+Alt+bksp in Xorg

2009-10-26 Thread Denis
Seriously! ;-) You just got to love that hal.  All that when one line does it in xorg.conf.  Yep, it's a serious improvement over the old way.  LOL Dale :-)  :-) P. S.  This was meant to be funny.  Note the LOL at the end.

Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+Alt+bksp in Xorg

2009-10-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 27 October 2009 01:24:32 Dale wrote: You just got to love that hal. All that when one line does it in xorg.conf. Yep, it's a serious improvement over the old way. LOL Dale :-) :-) P. S. This was meant to be funny. Note the LOL at the end. You do understand that in

Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+Alt+bksp in Xorg

2009-10-26 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 27.10.2009 00:50, schrieb Alan McKinnon: I think it's about time we let this hal thing drop though Even hal developers came to this reasons and droped it ;-) So WHY change everything to hal now if hal will be replaced in near future anyway? I changed keyboard and mouse layout back from hal

Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+Alt+bksp in Xorg

2009-10-26 Thread Dale
Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 27.10.2009 00:50, schrieb Alan McKinnon: I think it's about time we let this hal thing drop though Even hal developers came to this reasons and droped it ;-) So WHY change everything to hal now if hal will be replaced in near future anyway? I changed

Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+Alt+bksp in Xorg

2009-10-26 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 27.10.2009 01:27, schrieb Dale: I'm just grateful for the geek that put the SysRq key sequence in the kernel. At least you can get back to a working console and fix the stupid thing. I use ati-drivers here and killing xorg with SysRq only gets me a blank black screen and a system so deep

Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+Alt+bksp in Xorg

2009-10-26 Thread Dale
Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 27.10.2009 01:27, schrieb Dale: I'm just grateful for the geek that put the SysRq key sequence in the kernel. At least you can get back to a working console and fix the stupid thing. I use ati-drivers here and killing xorg with SysRq only gets me a