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. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
