Devs further disable Ctrl-Alt-Bksp... again... perhaps.

[Kareeser]

Link from the Arch Linux forums: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=73064

Apparently, the latest xorg-server package 1.6.1.901-1 on arch disables Ctrl-Alt-Bksp on user systems even if the "DontZap" flag is set to "False" in their xorg.conf.

Ironically enough, the solution is...

... another line in xorg.conf to re-enable ctrl-alt-bksp.

Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"

Just a heads up, since Arch packages are a bit ahead... Since the update comes from upstream, I'm not sure whether it'll come to Karmic sooner rather than later... although I'm fairly certain Jaunty users won't have to deal with this

[Gourgi]

i hope it is just a mistake that xorg devs will look at it soon
it is very funny though

[Kareeser]

Here is the original specification:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archive...il/000627.html

Reading it further, it seems as though they're implementing this as a more elegant solution to the Ctrl-Alt-Bksp problem, and coding in a hard fix instead of relying on a Server Flag in xorg.conf. Ahem... but since the option is activated by a line in xorg.conf, it seems a little roundabout and pointless.

I still don't understand the reasoning behind this fiasco... it would've been easier to have Ctrl-Alt-Bksp pressed twice/thrice. Problem solved.

[MacUntu]

Seems dead now.

[ronacc]

here we go again

[MacUntu]

Added

hal_set options terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp

at the end of /usr/lib/hal/debian-setup-keyboard - as a workaround.

Adding

<merge key="input.xkb.options" type="string">terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp</merge>

to /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-x11-keymap.fdi doesn't work for me (found this for Fedora and Arch).

[tepsipakki]

Why go through all that trouble, and not just check the conf named "key sequence to kill the X server" from the gnome keyboard settings?

[MacUntu]

Why go through all that trouble, and not just check the conf named "key sequence to kill the X server" from the gnome keyboard settings?

Whew, totally missed that. When was this option introduced?

[tepsipakki]

Along with the feature to set the shortcut as an xkb combo, ie. with xkeyboard-config 1.6.

[tepsipakki]

note that it will likely be configurable later on, the gui looks a bit weird since you can't change the combo from there.