[gentoo-user] Re: DontZap and Ctrl+Alt+Bs

[ABCD <en.ABCD@gmail.com>]

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Skippy wrote:

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> Greetings, I'm having exactly the same problem and have been trying to
> fix it.
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> Could you please specify where in xorg.conf you placed
> 
> setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
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> And where is the hal configuration file you inserted
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> input.xkb.options terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
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> Thanks so very much, this is driving me nuts!
> 
> Skippy
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> On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:44:59 +0300 (EEST)
> Igor Nemilentsev <trezorg@gmail.com> wrote the words:
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>> 
>> On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>> > AFAIK, the DontZap option applies to the key sequences
>> > <Alt> <Fx> to switch to a different terminal.
>>   No, the Ctrl+Alt+Fn sequence behaviour is changed
>>   with the option
>>   Option "DontVTSwitch"
>> 
>> > I have the same problem here (same configuration), i.e.
>> > <Ctrl><Alt><Del> doesn't work.
>> >
>> > If you can't exit via your window manager anymore,
>> > I think, Neil Bothwick has posted the following advice
>> > some days ago:
>>   I figured out to return old style I need this command:
>> 
>>   setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
>> 
>>   Or add
>>   input.xkb.options terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
>>   in configuration file of hal.
>> 
>>   Thanks for the advice.
>> 
>> Regards, Nemilentsev Igor
>>

I'm not sure how it goes in xorg.conf, as I no longer use that to configure 
my keyboard driver (as I use "evdev", which is configured using HAL.

If you are using the "evdev" driver, then you need to edit HAL's config. To 
do so, create a new file /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-x11-input.fdi (or any other 
name in that directory that ends in ".fdi", they are checked in ASCIIbetical 
order, so "99-local.fdi" is used near the end...), and modify the following 
to match your own preferences:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
 <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keys">
  <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">evdev</merge>
  <merge key="input.x11_options.XkbModel" type="string">evdev</merge>
  <merge key="input.x11_options.XkbLayout" type="string">us</merge>
  <merge key="input.x11_options.XkbVariant" type="string"></merge>
  <merge key="input.x11_options.XkbOptions" 
type="string">terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp</merge>
 </match
</deviceinfo>

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The format is a simple XML file, so it shouldn't be too hard to 
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