On 11/03/10 05:01 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 08:50 -0700, David Bartmess wrote: >> On 3/10/2010 10:43 PM, Chris Smart wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Patrick Bartek<bartek047@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>>> What genius decided that? Stupid. Are you sure? That little three-key combo has gotten me out of more than a few X-server lockups with Fedora due to misconfiguration by the installer. >>>> >>>> >>> Upstream X.Org. I'm sure if you search it, you will find lots of >>> discusions about it. You can always switch to a terminal and kill X >>> manually (or just the process hanging), or you can re-enable it in an >>> xorg.conf if you really want to. >>> >>> -c >>> >> Where can I find this to turn it back on? And what is the setting? I >> can't find an xorg.conf file anywhere on my system. > ---- > well the intent is not to run with any xorg.conf at all because that > allows you to switch components (keyboards, mouse, monitor, videocard) > without any need to reconfigure. > > but if you want one, it should go where it always has gone... /etc/X11 > > The argument is 'DontZap "false"' > > Section "ServerFlags" > Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" > Option "AutoAddDevices" "true" > Option "DontZap" "false" > EndSection > > Craig > > In fedora you don't need to edit the xorg.conf to enable the old C-M-<backspace> behaviour you need to put this in one of your login scripts, `setxkbmap -option -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp'. This could be any of the boot scripts or to make the setting per-user put it in your ~/.bash_profile (or what ever is the profile file for your shell). If this doesn't work then try to specify the above xorg.conf solution. This was discussed in great detail in a thread titled "3 finger salute gone in F11" from the 3rd week of July 2009. Hope this helps. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
