[gentoo-user] How do I restore special keys in X?

[gentoo-user] How do I restore special keys in X?

[Walter Dnes]

  We've all heard about the DontZap fiasco, caused by a few whiners.  I
managed to restore that, but there seems to be even more lost
functionality.  "MagicSysReq" no longer works in X.  In addition, I've
made a slight change in /etc/inittab...

ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/usr/bin/chvt 1

...which should cause ctrl_alt_del to kick me into tty1, rather than
rebooting.  Here is the "InputDevice" section in my xorg.conf which
(along with DontZap) restores ctral_alt_bksp functionality.

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
  Option      "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
  Option      "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_del"
EndSection

  MagicSysReq and the modified ctrl_alt_del both work from a text
console, but not from X.  What do I have to do to enable them?  BTW, I
am not running HAL or DBUS.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I restore special keys in X?

[Mick]

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On Wednesday 16 December 2009 06:05:04 Walter Dnes wrote:
>   We've all heard about the DontZap fiasco, caused by a few whiners.  I
> managed to restore that, but there seems to be even more lost
> functionality.  "MagicSysReq" no longer works in X.  In addition, I've
> made a slight change in /etc/inittab...
> 
> ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/usr/bin/chvt 1
> 
> ...which should cause ctrl_alt_del to kick me into tty1, rather than
> rebooting.  Here is the "InputDevice" section in my xorg.conf which
> (along with DontZap) restores ctral_alt_bksp functionality.
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>         Driver      "kbd"
>   Option      "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
>   Option      "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_del"
> EndSection
> 
>   MagicSysReq and the modified ctrl_alt_del both work from a text
> console, but not from X.  What do I have to do to enable them?  BTW, I
> am not running HAL or DBUS.

Option "DontZap"  "false"
Option  "VTSysReq" "true"

This is from the good ol' xorg.conf days.  Today you can use similar entries 
in the fdi XML files - but I am not really up to speed with those.  Google 
might help.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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