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Re: Getting CTRL-ALT-DEL to work (Semi- and puzzlingly SOLVED)



On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 10:14:04PM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 16:11, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 13:19, Thomas Krennwallner wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > On Sun May 04, 2003 at 11:51:52AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > > Thanks, but I haven't touched /etc/inittab
> > > > 
> > > >   $ dir /etc/inittab
> > > >   -rw-r--r--    1 root  root  2006 Nov  1  2001 /etc/inittab
> > > 
> > > Aha! I thought it is default to disable C-A-D. Accourding to shutdown(8)
> > > it checks whether the whitelisted user(s) is logged in and then shuts
> > > down. Are you logged in when pressing C-A-D? And C-A-D won't work with
> > > X.
> > 
> > Well, this is interesting.
> > 
> > I've been running all my failed tests using the *right* CTRL and
> > ALT keys.
> > 
> > When I use the *left* keys, it works like a charm.  Why would
> > this be?
> > 
> > -- 
> 
> That would be because left and right Ctrls and Alts send different
> keycodes, particularly with the right alt and non-English keyboards
> (right alt is often a compose or additional character set key.)

I too use the right alt key by preference. So in
/etc/console/default.map.gz I have

keycode 56 = Alt
keycode 100 = Alt

and in ~/.Xmodmap

keycode 0x40 =  Alt_L
keycode 0x71 =  Alt_L

(UK-layout 102-key keyboard, IBM "clicky" type :-) )

Left and right Ctrls either send the same keycodes on this keyboard or
are interpreted identically, so don't need a hack. I think it's same
keycodes.
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