On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 00:42 -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> To all:
>
> Installed f12 without any problems.
>
> Discovered that crtl-alt-backspace was disabled in f12 and how I could
> edit my xorg.conf to restore that feature.
>
> Searched Fedora f12 web pages and they told me to install
> system-config-display to create an xorg.conf that matched the default
> that the opSys was using. Worked great and, to use the cliché, "groovy"
>
> Reboot system and it immediately hangs after that cute little Fedora
> icon finishes to say that it booted. Just hangs and hangs. To use the
> cliché again, "not groovy".
>
> I figure I have no choice but to reinstall (what's a few hours between
> friends (grumble)) ... but would like to know the proper (which may be
> not documented) way to restore "crtl-alt-backspace" to kick the X.
>
> I have three computer on a KVM and I often need to kick one of them if
> it boots up and the KVM isn't directed at it cause its on one of the
> others.. I've never understood why X has to actually connect to the
> monitor to be correct, but X is pretty near a black box as far as I am
> concerned (sigh).
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put into /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DontZap" "false"
EndSection
then you can kill X with <Control><Alt><Backspace> as before (after you
restart X of course.
Craig
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