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

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

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.

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:

   -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp

to the "setxkbmap" command it uses to apply the keyboard settings.