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Re: Alt-F7 fails



On 2009-05-25 17:02 +0200, Patrick Wiseman wrote:

> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Jochen Schulz <ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote:
>> Jan Willem Stumpel:
>>>
>>> Section "ServerFlags"
>>>         Option "DontZap"        "off"
>>> EndSection
>>>
>>> By this means I got control-alt-backspace back. Or is there also a
>>> non-xorg.conf way of getting the same thing?
>>
>> No, that's exactly what you are supposed to do.
>
> Hmm.  According to the Xorg man page, the default behavior is thus:
>
> Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
>                Immediately  kills  the server -- no questions asked.  This can
>                be disabled with the DontZap xorg.conf(5) file option.
>
> So ENabling it in xorg.conf should be unnecessary.

Note that this has changed in xorg-server 1.6, DontZap is on there by
default.

Sven


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