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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+Alt+bksp in Xorg
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:07:37 +0200
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On Tuesday 27 October 2009 00:45:07 Mick wrote:
> I have been trying to get this to work for some time now. I have followed
> this upgrade guide and modified my
>
> /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-xinput-configuration.fdi
>
> to include
>
> <merge key="input.xkb.options"
> type="string">terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp</merge>
>
> This didn't work, so I looked further and found out that the
> input.xkb.options is deprecated and instead I should use:
>
> <merge key="input.x11_options.XkbOptions"
> type="string">terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp</merge>
>
> as detailed in here:
>
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/config/x11-input.fdi
>
> Anyway, neither will work. Is there any other syntax I should try, or is
> perhaps 10-xinput-configuration.fdi the wrong file for this?
>
This config works for me:
$ cat /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-x11-input.fdi
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<!-- KVM emulates a USB graphics tablet which works in absolute coordinate
mode -->
<match key="input.product" contains="QEMU USB Tablet">
<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">evdev</merge>
</match>
<!-- FIXME: Support tablets too. -->
<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.mouse">
<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">mouse</merge>
<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name"
string="Linux">
<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">evdev</merge>
</match>
</match>
<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.tablet">
<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name"
string="Linux">
<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">evdev</merge>
</match>
</match>
<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad">
<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">mouse</merge>
<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name"
string="Linux">
<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">evdev</merge>
</match>
</match>
<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keys">
<!-- If we're using Linux, we use evdev by default (falling back to
keyboard otherwise). -->
<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">keyboard</merge>
<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name"
string="Linux">
<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">evdev</merge>
<merge key="input.xkb.options"
type="string">terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp</merge>
</match>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com