On Sunday 18 April 2010 22:15:34 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 04/19/2010 12:07 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > > I've seen on this group some time back a few ways, or at least more > > than 1 as I recall to retain the ability to leave X with > > Ctrl+Alt_+BKSPC. > > > > I'm not finding it now readily. > > > > Can someone tell me where that setting may be made. > > > > If it has something to do with new way of starting X where we don't > > need an xorg.conf file... I should say that I still use > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf (In case that makes a difference) > > > > I find trying to leave X with the `logout' menu item provided on the > > Xfce4 destop, that if X has been running a while is seems to take a > > very long time to get out of X that way, and possibly not only long > > but even ever, short of: > > > > kill -TERM `ps wwaux|awk '/X.*\-nolisten tc[p]/{print $2}'` > > > > Or killing the pid some other way. > > > > The Ctrl+alt+bkspc was a much nicer fallback. > > The only way I could find that works was an option for it in KDE4's > keyboard layout settings. KDE was nice enough to explain what it is > doing under the hood though, which is adding: > > -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp > > to the "setxkbmap" command it uses to apply the keyboard settings.
In your xorg.conf you need: Section "InputDevice" [snip ...] Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" EndSection The 'new' way of setting it up without a xorg.conf file is to set it up in your /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi like so: <merge key="input.xkb.options" type="string">terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp</merge> Read more details here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.6-upgrade-guide.xml -- Regards, Mick
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