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Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?



On Fri,29.May.09, 08:26:53, Joel Roth wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I've noticed that Ctrl-Alt-Backspace no longer kills X for
> me (sid). I see Ubuntu has disabled this key combination.
> What about Debian?
 
It was disabled upstream (in Xorg)

> Is it me or Xorg? And how could I re-enable this
> functionality? Switch to terminal, ps ax, kill is possible,
> but clunky if I am testing a bunch of window managers.

You need

Option	"DontZap" "false"

in the ServerFlags section of your xorg.conf (check the manpage for 
xorg.conf, I'm writing from memory).

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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