Bug#581758: keyboard-configuration: way to enable xserver zapping not documented
clone 581758 -1
severity -1 normal
tags -1 - patch
retitle -1 way to enable xserver zapping not documented
reassign -1 release-notes
thank you
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:28:13PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
>
> What about adding this in /etc/default/keyboard ?
>
> # The following variables describe your keyboard and can have the same
> # values as the XkbModel, XkbLayout, XkbVariant and XkbOptions options
> -# in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
> +# in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Notably, XkbOptions now needs to explicitly
> +# set "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" to enable the traditional X server
> +# zapping behavior.
> Another option would be to at least make sure that the Squeeze release
> notes outline this clearly. I'm not sure what the process for this would
> be as there seem to be no release notes available yet.
I am reassigning a clone of this bug to release-notes. I can not
provide the exact wording but I suppose s.t. like the following can be
used (based on /usr/share/doc/xkb-data/NEWS.Debian.gz and the text of
Petr Baudis):
After the upgrade, the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace key combination can no longer
be used to kill the X server. If you would like to re-enable this
functionality globally, use "dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration" or
simply add an option "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" in /etc/default/keyboard
to the value of the variable XKBOPTIONS. If you would like to re-enable
this feature for a particular user only, you may do so with the
desktop's Keyboard Preferences application of the respective user. You
may also enable it for the current session using the command "setxkbmap
-option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp".
Anton Zinoviev
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