[gentoo-user] Re: I want my Ctrl+Alt+Backspace back

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> writes:

> I think you did not read the link properly.  You are meant to copy
> the relevant .fdi file from
> /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi to
> /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi and then modify the last
> paragraph:

Yes, I did misread apparently... it doesn't say that at all... maybe
that is why.
 
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.6-upgrade-guide.xml

There is no mention of copying:
   /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi
to
  /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi 

  [...]

  If you want to make the change permanent, regardless of your desktop
  environment, you have a few more options :

    * If you use HAL to manage input devices, copy the following HAL
      fdi snippet into the fdi file from /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ which
      you use to control your keyboard. <merge key="input.xkb.options"
      type="string">terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp</merge> If you do not have
      any custom keyboard rules, you can copy and adapt rules from
      /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-x11-input.fdi

It never names the file... that;
   /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-x11-input.fdi
is to be copied to, or anything about the last paragraph.

I'm sorry to be so dense here... but I'm missing something still.

> <merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">us</merge>
>       <merge key="input.xkb.options" 

That second line above  is not present in my copy of:
 /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-x11-input.fdi

Mick wrote:
> type="string">terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp</merge>
>       <merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string" />
>
> by the adding the above line starting with type= ...


I see (showing line numbers 
   from:[...]10osvendor/10-x11-input.fdi

[...]
17     </match>
18
19      <merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">us</merge>
20     <merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string" />
21   </match>
[...]

So do you mean to replace 19 and 20 with:

,----
| <merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">us</merge>
| <merge key="input.xkb.options" type="string">terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp</merge>
`----

Or add the two in box quote after 19... or what?