Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I want my Ctrl+Alt+Backspace back

[Mick]

On Sunday 18 April 2010 22:15:34 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 04/19/2010 12:07 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> > I've seen on this group some time back a few ways, or at least more
> > than 1 as I recall to retain the ability to leave X with
> > Ctrl+Alt_+BKSPC.
> >
> > I'm not finding it now readily.
> >
> > Can someone tell me where that setting may be made.
> >
> > If it has something to do with new way of starting X where we don't
> > need an xorg.conf file... I should say that I still use
> > /etc/X11/xorg.conf (In case that makes a difference)
> >
> > I find trying to leave X with the `logout' menu item provided on the
> > Xfce4 destop, that if X has been running a while is seems to take a
> > very long time to get out of X that way, and possibly not only long
> > but even ever, short of:
> >
> >   kill -TERM `ps wwaux|awk '/X.*\-nolisten tc[p]/{print $2}'`
> >
> > Or killing the pid some other way.
> >
> > The Ctrl+alt+bkspc was a much nicer fallback.
>
> The only way I could find that works was an option for it in KDE4's
> keyboard layout settings.  KDE was nice enough to explain what it is
> doing under the hood though, which is adding:
>
>    -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
>
> to the "setxkbmap" command it uses to apply the keyboard settings.

In your xorg.conf you need:

Section "InputDevice"
  [snip ...]
  Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
EndSection

The 'new' way of setting it up without a xorg.conf file is to set it up in 
your /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi like so:

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

Read more details here:

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.6-upgrade-guide.xml

-- 
Regards,
Mick