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

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 04/19/2010 12:47 AM, Mick wrote:
> 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

HAL is deprecated and will not be supported in X anymore,  so it's not 
the "new" way ;)