From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O3cgF-0003hG-I2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:09:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5FAAAE0E7D for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:09:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E839E0BD1 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:47:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwg30 with SMTP id 30so93780wwg.40 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:47:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=1azI5+B0gJgrUt0QZHWKoNjmP2+vB4M4QJ8wMjjFrk0=; b=ORgyjPIebCAG8pK3tJMHmCfDBZxKRsjsid2SOfZsP3KgU2TrjuUhcaDv2dhW5yLCaP TBqUTqsua6xAJtxXWK8ecZSliOWbq0QGJO3OFwz9y+Tteu5SRdJW49XkYz/yMr04X5mc k8CmArVPP0/qtAMSXK5roSsHwQxLYSzzBmbAI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=gUmaTHKhjY+DkJrt5i5MBIEcKeCGAA6CTI89mBUKeSIjSVFk0jpIYgYQTm/eLR4r5z j22xfUO3C4RQ0KG1DM+O4unhfW9BGQtqbT9pv5EWxNttxKzujqt+F3dMfJ7YEIRSMVIj YBox8OY3DxgtNA9gpHHtA0taKfGdDd6KFc1U4= Received: by 10.216.184.137 with SMTP id s9mr2060282wem.133.1271627250694; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:47:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r29sm9593965wbv.3.2010.04.18.14.47.29 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:47:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I want my Ctrl+Alt+Backspace back Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:47:27 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.32-gentoo-r8; KDE/4.3.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <87k4s48o6d.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4430586.kn7U12xZiN"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201004182247.29164.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: fcfa439e-bbec-42fd-be55-1624fafd2865 X-Archives-Hash: 06caaedfec729d31a3044d770e01909b --nextPart4430586.kn7U12xZiN Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sunday 18 April 2010 22:15:34 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 04/19/2010 12:07 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > > I've seen on this group some time back a few ways, or at least more > > than 1 as I recall to retain the ability to leave X with > > Ctrl+Alt_+BKSPC. > > > > I'm not finding it now readily. > > > > Can someone tell me where that setting may be made. > > > > If it has something to do with new way of starting X where we don't > > need an xorg.conf file... I should say that I still use > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf (In case that makes a difference) > > > > I find trying to leave X with the `logout' menu item provided on the > > Xfce4 destop, that if X has been running a while is seems to take a > > very long time to get out of X that way, and possibly not only long > > but even ever, short of: > > > > kill -TERM `ps wwaux|awk '/X.*\-nolisten tc[p]/{print $2}'` > > > > Or killing the pid some other way. > > > > The Ctrl+alt+bkspc was a much nicer fallback. >=20 > The only way I could find that works was an option for it in KDE4's > keyboard layout settings. KDE was nice enough to explain what it is > doing under the hood though, which is adding: >=20 > -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp >=20 > to the "setxkbmap" command it uses to apply the keyboard settings. In your xorg.conf you need: Section "InputDevice" [snip ...] Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" EndSection The 'new' way of setting it up without a xorg.conf file is to set it up in= =20 your /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi like so: terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp Read more details here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.6-upgrade-guide.x= ml =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart4430586.kn7U12xZiN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkvLffEACgkQVTDTR3kpaLYZtwCg1TzIvggvhpQsJU/rtZhlD1Yf WU0AnjxCFG/sfhrti4FL/15cu53RctUT =72HF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4430586.kn7U12xZiN--