Re: What happened to "use control-alt-backspace to terminate X server?"

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

Thanks!  I'll put that in my bag of tricks...


On Mar 10, 2014, at 11:16 AM, Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 04:08:06AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> In Wheezy, I used to be able to use
>>    dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
>> to (among other things) set the option to use control-alt-backspace to terminate the X server.
>> 
>> But in Jessie, "dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration" asks no questions and makes no changes.
>> 
>> 
>> What is the preferred method of configuring the keyboard in Jessie?
> 
> I think that's the wrong question. You want "How can I get the X
> server to listen to control-alt-backspace?"
> 
> To which, I think, the answer is:
> 
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
> Section "ServerFlags"
>    Option         "DontZap" "0"
> 
> which defeats the default, which is not to listen to it.
> 
> -dsr-