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From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: I want my Ctrl+Alt+Backspace back
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:45:53
Message-Id: 87mxwxmy74.fsf@newsguy.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I want my Ctrl+Alt+Backspace back by Mick
1 Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> writes:
2
3 > I think you did not read the link properly. You are meant to copy
4 > the relevant .fdi file from
5 > /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi to
6 > /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi and then modify the last
7 > paragraph:
8
9 Yes, I did misread apparently... it doesn't say that at all... maybe
10 that is why.
11
12 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.6-upgrade-guide.xml
13
14 There is no mention of copying:
15 /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi
16 to
17 /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi
18
19 [...]
20
21 If you want to make the change permanent, regardless of your desktop
22 environment, you have a few more options :
23
24 * If you use HAL to manage input devices, copy the following HAL
25 fdi snippet into the fdi file from /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ which
26 you use to control your keyboard. <merge key="input.xkb.options"
27 type="string">terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp</merge> If you do not have
28 any custom keyboard rules, you can copy and adapt rules from
29 /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-x11-input.fdi
30
31 It never names the file... that;
32 /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-x11-input.fdi
33 is to be copied to, or anything about the last paragraph.
34
35 I'm sorry to be so dense here... but I'm missing something still.
36
37 > <merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">us</merge>
38 > <merge key="input.xkb.options"
39
40 That second line above is not present in my copy of:
41 /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-x11-input.fdi
42
43 Mick wrote:
44 > type="string">terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp</merge>
45 > <merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string" />
46 >
47 > by the adding the above line starting with type= ...
48
49
50 I see (showing line numbers
51 from:[...]10osvendor/10-x11-input.fdi
52
53 [...]
54 17 </match>
55 18
56 19 <merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">us</merge>
57 20 <merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string" />
58 21 </match>
59 [...]
60
61 So do you mean to replace 19 and 20 with:
62
63 ,----
64 | <merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">us</merge>
65 | <merge key="input.xkb.options" type="string">terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp</merge>
66 `----
67
68 Or add the two in box quote after 19... or what?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I want my Ctrl+Alt+Backspace back Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>