control-alt-backspace (C-M-BS) is an important key combination in Emacs, usually bound to backwards-kill-sexp.
in XFree86-4.2.99.3 (as comes with Red Hat beta phoebe), it is not available to Emacs, see bug <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81947> usually, C-M-BS kills the X server, so you need to enable the DontZap option in /etc/X11/XF86Config. xev(1) reports C-M-BS as KeyPress event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0x2c00001, root 0x3f, subw 0x0, time 65848720, (154,149), root:(162,184), state 0x0, keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: "" KeyPress event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0x2c00001, root 0x3f, subw 0x0, time 65848733, (154,149), root:(162,184), state 0x4, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: "" KeyRelease event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0x2c00001, root 0x3f, subw 0x0, time 65849308, (154,149), root:(162,184), state 0xc, keycode 22 (keysym 0xfed5, Terminate_Server), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: "" some files in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/ mention "Terminate_Server". fortunately, a simple $ xmodmap -e 'keycode 22 = BackSpace' fixes the problem, but this is an extremely inconvenient default. thanks. -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running RedHat8 GNU/Linux <http://www.camera.org> <http://www.iris.org.il> <http://www.memri.org/> <http://www.mideasttruth.com/> <http://www.palestine-central.com/links.html> Small languages require big programs, large languages enable small programs. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
