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To: Philipp Lengemann <freebsdmail@gmx.de>
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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:00:52 -0800
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From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Trivial questions about CNTL-ALT-DEL and CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE 
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In message <20091116180102.61682ee8@gmx.de>, you wrote:

>Am Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:19:29 -0800
>schrieb "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>:
>
>> I _did_ go and read the Handbook section that Manolis Kiagias
>> kindly posted a link to, and I have now tried _both_ of the two
>> ways described there to re-enable CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE functionality
>> for the X server, and sadly I must report that for me, at least
>> _neither_ of those methods worked
>
>
>Put the following to your xorg.conf:
>
><snip>
>Section "ServerFlags"
>  Option "DontZap"         "off"
>  Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
>  Option "AutoAddDevices"  "off"
>EndSection
>
>Section "InputDevice"
>  Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
>EndSection
></snip>
>
>This works for me very reliable (xorg-7.4_2).


Ummm... yes.  Thanks.  That does seem to work nicely.

Thanks a bunch.