Zapping the Xorg server

2010-08-24 Thread Wolfgang Draxinger
Hi, as you might know, Zapping the Xorg server by means of CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE has been first disabled by default, and later on the xorg.conf option went away, too. It is still possible to setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bks somewhere in the startup/init scripts to reenable, but I wonder

Re: Zapping the Xorg server

2010-08-24 Thread Patrick O'Donnell
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:08:55 +0200 From: Wolfgang Draxinger wdraxinger.maill...@draxit.de ... CTRL, ALT and BACKSPACE however are present and behave the same on every keyboard (I know of, which are plenty). So, could we please bring back the static configuration for zapping the X server by

Re: Zapping the Xorg server

2010-08-24 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 18:08:55 +0200, Wolfgang Draxinger wrote: Hi, as you might know, Zapping the Xorg server by means of CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE has been first disabled by default, and later on the xorg.conf option went away, too. This is not true. The sequence was removed from the

Re: Zapping the Xorg server

2010-08-24 Thread Andrew Clayton
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:08:55 +0200, Wolfgang Draxinger wrote: Frankly, I don't see any sane reason, why it was removed in the first place. Disabling it by default, okay I can live with that. But taking away the option alltogether: Not good. Don't worry. It's still there. If your using gnome,

Sic transit gloria keycodi

2010-08-24 Thread Andre Majorel
It was apparently decided that evdev should have different keycodes than the usual. I for one welcome our new keycodes, the old ones weren't any good anyway. Now I need a way to query the X server for which keycodes mean what, or at least whether it's the traditional set or the evdev set. Is

Re: Sic transit gloria keycodi

2010-08-24 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 08:38:33PM +0200, Andre Majorel wrote: It was apparently decided that evdev should have different keycodes than the usual. I for one welcome our new keycodes, the old ones weren't any good anyway. Now I need a way to query the X server for which keycodes mean what,

Re: Zapping the Xorg server

2010-08-24 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 06:08:55PM +0200, Wolfgang Draxinger wrote: as you might know, Zapping the Xorg server by means of CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE has been first disabled by default, and later on the xorg.conf option went away, too. It is still possible to setxkbmap -option

Launching X11 in specified vty ?

2010-08-24 Thread Aaron Lewis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Sometimes when i upgraded kernel , i need to update kernel modules , but i often forgot it totally , so sometimes when i type in startx , x11 will hang as fglrx module fails. The problem is , my system isn't really died at that

[SOLVE] Re: How to know if a window has a menu , identify by WId ( was `Simple App to get window WId` )

2010-08-24 Thread Aaron Lewis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Eirik, On 08/24/2010 01:23 PM, Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen wrote: Unless I totally misunderstand what you are trying to do, probably not. There is no way X can know whether some random painting commands is a menu or not. The X server only