Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 15:43:22 -0700 From: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trivial questions about CNTL-ALT-DEL and CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE Message-ID: <ade45ae90911091443q43bc2e64s266faf99874710ac@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <17331.1257805180@tristatelogic.com> References: <17331.1257805180@tristatelogic.com>
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On 11/9/09, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@tristatelogic.com> wrote: > > I've just been installing 7.2-RELEASE/amd64 on a fresh/wiped system > that I plan to use as my future "main" workstation. > > Anyway, I've already noticed a couple of things that seem to be different > from prior release that I need to ask about, i.e.: > > 1) It appears that CNTL-ALT-DEL now causes a shutdown/reboot. (I don't > know what release this new feature started in... I only just noticed it > now.) Anyway, I'd like to know how I can disable this particular bit of > functionality. How do I do that? # sysctl -d hw.syscons.kbd_reboot hw.syscons.kbd_reboot: enable keyboard reboot > > 2) Prior versions of X (Xorg?) allowed CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE to cause an > immediate shutdown of the X server, but now, that doesn't see to work > anymore. How can I (re-)enable this functionality? Thanks to the new versions of xorg, they removed that functionality. A config file with "DontZap" equal to "off" re-enables it. Google for DontZap to find where to put it in the config. > > Thanks in advance for any answers.
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