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On Monday 14 September 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Paul Hartman |
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> <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> Other obvious changes are that ctrl-alt-bkspc no longer shuts X down |
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> >> And the desktop seems to take a good bit longer to initially load. |
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> > The makers of Xorg have disabled ctrl-alt-backspace by default in |
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> > recent versions (since ~6 months ago or so?). Add this to your |
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> > .xinitrc (or whatever) to get this behavior back: |
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> > setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp |
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> Here's a page that has some other methods of re-enabling this hotkey |
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> combination: |
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> http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-enabledisable-ctrlaltbackspace-in-ubuntu-9 |
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>-10-karmic.html |
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I had made the entry in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-xinput-configuration.fdi |
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(slightly different place to the Ubuntu link above) but after a while I took |
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it out as I was experimenting with stuff and the three finger salute has been |
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working since. I assumed that xorg fixed this RHL <aheam> feature change. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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