Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy? [CONCLUSION]

2013-06-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 12, 2013, at 1:10 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: Having asked the question, I owe the group answers. Unfortunately real life intruded its ugly head last week. I do plan to do the tests and report back as soon as I can. Well, I finally got a couple of free hours this afternoon. Here's

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy? [CONCLUSION]

2013-06-15 Thread Brian
On Sat 15 Jun 2013 at 00:30:52 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: Well, I finally got a couple of free hours this afternoon. Here's what I did. The system I was having trouble with was one of my testing systems, so there wasn't much of importance on it. So I decided to re-install Wheezy from

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy? [CONCLUSION]

2013-06-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 15, 2013, at 11:22 AM, Brian wrote: At last! Udev does not know about what you have done, so one way of beating it into submission is by rebooting. A gentler approach is udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=change Sorry for all the fuss... It's not a fuss but an

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy? [CONCLUSION]

2013-06-15 Thread Brian
On Sat 15 Jun 2013 at 12:32:52 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: I usually activate ctrl-alt-bksp during the post-installation phase when I install/purge/configure stuff I want/don't-want that differs from the default installation. Some of that requires a reboot anyway, so using udevadm isn't

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

2013-06-12 Thread Bert Riding
On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 04:30:02 +0200, Rick Thomas wrote: I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it comes fresh-out-of-the-box Wheezy. I'd like to have ctrl-alt-del restart the window manager. I've configured it to do so with dpkg-reconfigure keyboard- configuration, but (even

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

2013-06-12 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Brian, You are absolutely right! Having asked the question, I owe the group answers. Unfortunately real life intruded its ugly head last week. I do plan to do the tests and report back as soon as I can. Rick On Jun 11, 2013, at 11:26 AM, Brian wrote: He could consider providing

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

2013-06-11 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com [2013-06-10 11:19 -0700]: On Jun 10, 2013, at 1:37 AM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: Try echo 'XKBOPTIONS=lv3:ralt_switch,compose:caps,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp' /etc/default/keyboard Elimar Thanks, Elimar. I'll give it a try. Can you give me a

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

2013-06-11 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com To: debian-user List Debian debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, June 9, 2013 10:27:35 PM Subject: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy? I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

2013-06-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 07:27:35PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it comes fresh-out-of-the-box Wheezy. I'd like to have ctrl-alt-del restart the window manager. I've configured it to do so with dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

2013-06-11 Thread Brian
On Wed 12 Jun 2013 at 01:46:06 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 07:27:35PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it comes fresh-out-of-the-box Wheezy. I'd like to have ctrl-alt-del restart the window manager. I've

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

2013-06-11 Thread Brian
On Mon 10 Jun 2013 at 10:37:28 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: Try echo 'XKBOPTIONS=lv3:ralt_switch,compose:caps,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp' /etc/default/keyboard Does this do anything special? Or, putting it another way, does it do anything more than 'dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration'

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

2013-06-11 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Dienstag, 11. Juni 2013 schrieb Brian: On Wed 12 Jun 2013 at 01:46:06 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 07:27:35PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it comes fresh-out-of-the-box Wheezy. I'd like to have

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

2013-06-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/06/13 02:28 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Am Dienstag, 11. Juni 2013 schrieb Brian: On Wed 12 Jun 2013 at 01:46:06 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 07:27:35PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it comes

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

2013-06-11 Thread Brian
On Tue 11 Jun 2013 at 20:28:00 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Am Dienstag, 11. Juni 2013 schrieb Brian: On Wed 12 Jun 2013 at 01:46:06 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 07:27:35PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

2013-06-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 09 iun 13, 19:27:35, Rick Thomas wrote: I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it comes fresh-out-of-the-box Wheezy. I'd like to have ctrl-alt-del restart the window manager. I've configured it to do so with dpkg-reconfigure keyboard- configuration, but (even

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

2013-06-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 9, 2013, at 11:10 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 09 iun 13, 19:27:35, Rick Thomas wrote: I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it comes fresh-out-of-the-box Wheezy. I'd like to have ctrl-alt-del restart the window manager. I've configured it to do so with

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

2013-06-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 09 iun 13, 23:51:36, Rick Thomas wrote: It's a Macintosh keyboard. The backspace key on my keyboard is marked delete -- the del key is *also* marked delete. Hence some of the confusion. ... Specifically, ctrl-alt-backspace did nothing before I did dpkg-reconfigure

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

2013-06-10 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 10. 06. 2013 04:27:35 je Rick Thomas napisal(a): I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it comes fresh-out-of-the-box Wheezy. I'd like to have ctrl-alt-del restart the window manager. I've configured it to do so with dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration, but

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

2013-06-10 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com [2013-06-09 23:51 -0700]: On Jun 9, 2013, at 11:10 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 09 iun 13, 19:27:35, Rick Thomas wrote: I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it comes fresh-out-of-the-box Wheezy. I'd like to have ctrl-alt-del

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

2013-06-10 Thread Brian
On Sun 09 Jun 2013 at 23:51:36 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: I've configured ctrl-alt-backspace to do so with dpkg- reconfigure keyboard-configuration, but (even after a reboot) that doesn't seem to do the job. Specifically, ctrl-alt-backspace did nothing before I did dpkg-reconfigure

Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

2013-06-09 Thread Rick Thomas
I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it comes fresh-out-of-the-box Wheezy. I'd like to have ctrl-alt-del restart the window manager. I've configured it to do so with dpkg-reconfigure keyboard- configuration, but (even after a reboot) that doesn't seem to do the job.