Can't Zap X (Option "DontZap" "off")

[John Magolske <listmail@b79.net>]

I'd like to be able to use Ctrl-Alt-BS to kill X, but can't get it to
work. I searched around and tried a bunch of things:

In /etc/X11/xorg.conf :
    ...
    Section "InputDevice"
            Identifier  "Keyboard0"
            Driver      "kbd"
            Option      "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"
            Option      "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
    EndSection
    ...
    Section "ServerFlags"
            Option "DontZap"        "off"
    EndSection

Added to /etc/default/console-setup (then rebooted the machine):

    XKBOPTIONS="terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"

Added this line to /etc/default/keyboard :

    XKBOPTIONS="terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"

Added this line to ~/.xsession and ~/.xinitrc :

    setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp

...

All to no avail. The *only* way I can get Ctrl-Alt-BS to Zap X is to
first open a terminal after launching X and manually enter:

    setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp

Isn't this supposed to happen automatically when launching X if that
line is in ~/.xinitrc ?

And Alt-SysRq-K is not what I'm looking for -- that will kill X, but
just leaves a dead VT that I can't switch out of.

This is on sid, with the latest xserver-xorg-core.

TIA for any help,

John


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