Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:48:30 +0200 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trivial questions about CNTL-ALT-DEL and CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE Message-ID: <4AF89C3E.3030407@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <17331.1257805180@tristatelogic.com> References: <17331.1257805180@tristatelogic.com>
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Ronald F. Guilmette 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? > Add: hw.syscons.kbd_reboot=0 to /etc/sysctl.conf. Activate immediately by executing sysctl hw.syscons.kbd_reboot=0 > 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? > > Welcome to the new Xorg and HAL... Please read this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html There is a note that describes how to re-enable CTRL+ALT+BKSP functionality.
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