Re: [gentoo-user] DontZap and Ctrl+Alt+Bs

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 28 July 2009 13:23:13 Skippy wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:56:58 +0300 (EEST)
>
> Igor Nemilentsev <trezorg@gmail.com> wrote the words:
> > > Greetings, I'm having exactly the same problem and have been trying
> > > to fix it.
> > >
> > > Could you please specify where in xorg.conf you placed
> > > setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
> >
> >   Please enter it in command line.
> >
> > > And where is the hal configuration file you inserted
> > >
> > > input.xkb.options terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
> >
> >   I have it in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/
> >   I just added.
> >
> >   <merge key="input.xkb.options"
> >  
> > type="string">grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:scroll,grp:switch,compose:ralt,term
> >inate:ctrl_alt_ bksp</merge>
>
> Thanks so much for the specifics.  These still haven't fixed my
> system.  Does anyone know if this is something the Gentoo developers
> are going to fix down the road?  Highly annoying, as others have
> already mentioned.

The problem has little if anything to do with Gentoo developers (who keep 
things as close to upstream as possible), and everything to do with the 
upstream developers of Xorg and hal. The fix is per their timetable.

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