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



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.)
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