[lug] Kill X11 Hot Keys?

Bear Giles bgiles at coyotesong.com
Mon Dec 14 19:17:07 MST 2015


I might have seen a system with a weird configuration. It's been years but
IIRC on that system RL5 was regular multi-user and X required RL6. Forcing
the RL down to 5 would kill X and then another process would automatically
bounce the RL back to 6.

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Simos <blug at chinesetearoom.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 01:25:17 +0000 (UTC)
> stimits at comcast.net wrote:
>
> > ...
> > > setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
> > >
> > > You can probably put this in your ~/.xinitrc
> > ...
> >
> > I tried this...it completely ignored this. I guess ~/.xinitrc is no
> longer read, or the key binding is no longer valid.
>
> Well, it works on my Debian box with LXDE/Openbox.
>
> Apparently on Fedora though you also have to set DontZap to false in
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf (create it if it doesn't exist):
>
> Section "ServerFlags"
>     Option "DontZap" "false"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputClass"
>     Identifier      "Keyboard Defaults"
>     MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
>     Option          "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
> EndSection
>
> Restart your X server obvioulsy after doing this.
>
> Simos
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