Re: Alt-F7 fails

[Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com>]

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> 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.

Ah, that explains it; my testing system has 1.4.2.

Patrick