On Monday 14 September 2009, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Paul Hartman
>
> <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> >> Other obvious changes are that ctrl-alt-bkspc no longer shuts X down
> >> And the desktop seems to take a good bit longer to initially load.
> >
> > The makers of Xorg have disabled ctrl-alt-backspace by default in
> > recent versions (since ~6 months ago or so?). Add this to your
> > .xinitrc (or whatever) to get this behavior back:
> > setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
>
> Here's a page that has some other methods of re-enabling this hotkey
> combination:
>
> http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-enabledisable-ctrlaltbackspace-in-ubuntu-9
>-10-karmic.html

I had made the entry in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-xinput-configuration.fdi 
(slightly different place to the Ubuntu link above) but after a while I took 
it out as I was experimenting with stuff and the three finger salute has been 
working since.  I assumed that xorg fixed this RHL <aheam> feature change.
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Regards,
Mick