Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:49:04 +0200 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> 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: <4B009370.1040002@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <42052.1258327169@tristatelogic.com> References: <42052.1258327169@tristatelogic.com>
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Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > Many thanks to those who responded regarding my two questions. > > With regards to the CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE sequence and its ability > (or lack thereof) to cause an immediate shutdown of the X server... > well... 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. I did everything exactly and > precisely as described. I even cut and pasted the code in the Handbook > that was suggested for the /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-input.fdi > file, and still, CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE is producing no effect whatsoever > for me. This is on 7.2-RELEASE/amd64. > > What now? send-pr? > > Keep the x11-input.fdi section from the Handbook, and also add the following line to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, at the end of the "ServerLayout" section: Option "DontZap" "false" Restart your system, it should work now. (Just tried it on mine. It won't work without both of these changes). Please report back if it works for you! By the way Xorg configuration becomes more and more elusive. Initially, DontZap was enough. Then it had no effect at all and the fdi file was needed. Now seems both are needed. What's next? I'll test this in a few other systems and update the Handbook section if it seems to be the latest norm. Thanks!
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