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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Strange desktop happening following update world
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:54:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <58965d8a0909141354u4e5f7c6av88f6267f53974ff5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pr9tl4xu.fsf@newsguy.com>

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> On reboot following recent update world I find the xfce4 manager is
> not able to display the former desktop wallpaper or even the
> wallpapers packaged with the install.

Did you upgrade to jpeg-7 recently?

> 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



  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-14 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-14 19:08 [gentoo-user] Strange desktop happening following update world Harry Putnam
2009-09-14 20:54 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2009-09-14 20:55   ` Paul Hartman
2009-09-14 21:21     ` Mick
2009-09-15  1:06   ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2009-09-15 16:55     ` Paul Hartman
2009-09-17 21:14       ` Harry Putnam
2009-09-17 21:35         ` Paul Hartman

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