Re: Zapping the Xorg server

2010-08-25 Thread Wolfgang Draxinger
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:19:05 +0200 Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org wrote: This is not true. The sequence was removed from the default xkb map, and can be turned back on with the appropriate xkb option, either in xorg.conf or your desktop or your session startup scripts. Well, this is a

Re: Zapping the Xorg server

2010-08-25 Thread Wolfgang Draxinger
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:05:42 +0100 Andrew Clayton and...@digital-domain.net wrote: Don't worry. It's still there. In some form, yes. However it can be disabled by setxkbmap -option Now there are situations in which you don't want users being able to disable the Zap, but also don't want the

Re: Zapping the Xorg server

2010-08-25 Thread Wolfgang Draxinger
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:33:03 -0400 (EDT) Patrick O'Donnell p...@ascent.com wrote: I'm one of those who's work would be severely disrupted by a hardwired CTRL-ALT-Backspace Zap. CTRL-ALT-Backspace is hardwired in my fingers from nearly 30 years of editing using Emacs and kin. Just curious

Re: Zapping the Xorg server

2010-08-25 Thread Wolfgang Draxinger
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:07:16 +1000 Peter Hutterer peter.hutte...@who-t.net wrote: re:xmodmap, the following may be interesting reading http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/06/keyboard-configuration-its-complicated.html Educational indeed. However I hate relying on desktop environments and their

Re: Delayed reply-CCs (was: Zapping the Xorg server)

2010-08-25 Thread Wolfgang Draxinger
Sorry guys, I just took notice, that my replies missed the CC to the maillist (my failure, I messed up my MUAs configuration). So those who now get duplicates, due to the directly addressed replies, and now the CC, take my apologies. But I prefer to CCs my answers here for the discussion being

Re: Zapping the Xorg server

2010-08-25 Thread Pat Kane
please tell a hardcore Vim user: What hotkey/command of Emacs collides See: http://www.foldr.org/~michaelw/log/programming/lisp/dontzap-emacs Pat --- On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Wolfgang Draxinger wdraxinger.maill...@draxit.de wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:33:03 -0400 (EDT)

Re: Zapping the Xorg server

2010-08-25 Thread Felix Miata
On 2010/08/25 19:13 (GMT+0200) Wolfgang Draxinger composed: On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:19:05 +0200 No related xorg.conf option has been removed. I beg to differ: ServerFlags Option DontZap off is no longer interpreted (on my system). Did you try it correctly quoted? Section ServerFlags

Re: Zapping the Xorg server

2010-08-25 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:13:39PM +0200, Wolfgang Draxinger wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:19:05 +0200 Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org wrote: This is not true. The sequence was removed from the default xkb map, and can be turned back on with the appropriate xkb option, either in

Re: Zapping the Xorg server

2010-08-25 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:14:15PM +0200, Wolfgang Draxinger wrote: On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:07:16 +1000 Peter Hutterer peter.hutte...@who-t.net wrote: re:xmodmap, the following may be interesting reading http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/06/keyboard-configuration-its-complicated.html

Re: Zapping the Xorg server

2010-08-25 Thread Wolfgang Draxinger
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:44:46 +1000 Peter Hutterer peter.hutte...@who-t.net wrote: Then you get to either fix the scripts or fix your DE. No-one really cares _what_ desktop environment you're running and one is as good as the other. The one developers are running themselves naturally get more

Re: Zapping the Xorg server

2010-08-25 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 02:45:51AM +0200, Wolfgang Draxinger wrote: On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:44:46 +1000 Peter Hutterer peter.hutte...@who-t.net wrote: Then you get to either fix the scripts or fix your DE. No-one really cares _what_ desktop environment you're running and one is as good as

Re: Zapping the Xorg server

2010-08-25 Thread Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen
Peter Hutterer peter.hutte...@who-t.net writes: On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 02:45:51AM +0200, Wolfgang Draxinger wrote: [...] I this particular case: I'm system administrator at my university's student computer lab. Some students tend to lock their sessions, (override-)configuring