Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy? [CONCLUSION]
On Jun 12, 2013, at 1:10 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
Having asked the question, I owe the group answers.
Unfortunately real life intruded its ugly head last week. I do plan
to do the tests and report back as soon as I can.
Well, I finally got a couple of free hours this afternoon. Here's
what I did.
The system I was having trouble with was one of my "testing" systems,
so there wasn't much of importance on it. So I decided to re-install
Wheezy from scratch and see how a really "fresh out of the box" system
behaved. (For the record, the original system had some left-over
cruft from previous experiments, and I don't know exactly how that
might have affected the things I was seeing.)
(1) I installed Wheezy from scratch with desktop=xfce from the netinst
CD.
(2) I looked at /etc/default/keyboard and noted no "XKBOPTIONS" line.
(3) I tried "ctrl-alt-del" and "ctrl-alt-backspace". The second did
nothing. The first started a screensaver.
(4) I ran "dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration" and changed the
"Use Control+Alt+Backspace to terminate the X server?" option from
"no" to "yes".
(6) I looked at /etc/default/keyboard again and noted there now was a
line with XKBOPTIONS="terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp".
(5) I tried "ctrl-alt-del" and "ctrl-alt-backspace" again (without
logging out or rebooting). As expected, no change from (3),
(6) I logged out, logged back in. I tried the experiment again. No
change from (3).
(7) I rebooted and logged back in. I tried the experiment again.
This time "ctrl-alt-backspace" restarted the X server. And "ctrl-alt-
del" still started the screensaver.
So *somewhere* in the cruft on the old system was *something* that
interfered with restarting the X server. But I don't have the energy
to track it down. It will just have to remain one of life's little
mysteries.
Sorry for all the fuss...
Rick
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