On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 16:54:09 +0800 Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> wrote: > On 08/06/2015, Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 08/06/2015, Petter Adsen <petter@synth.no> wrote: > >> On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 16:10:23 +0800 > >> Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> On 27/05/2015, Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> <snip> > >>> > >>> > > >>> > If it's enabled, CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE will halt X and all GUI > >>> > stuff, and drop you to a terminal. Once you've installed the > >>> > nVidia driver, etc., just type startx. > >>> > > >>> > B > >>> > > >>> > >>> I tried that,and got no response, so I assume that it is not > >>> enabled. > >>> > >>> How do I enable it? > >> > >> setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp > >> > >> Petter > >> > > > > Thank you for that. > > > > However, whilt that apparently enabled the <CTRL><ALT><BACSPACE> > > > > > Plurry keyboards! > > Whilst that combination was apparently enabled, the effect of that > combination keypress was to take the computer to a different state of > xwindows, and, not to disable xwindows, so the combination keypress > did not have the desired effect. You need to be clearer. Did it drop you back to the display manager? Stop that manually, like has been explained elsewhere in this thread. If no display manager is running, and you had started X with startx or xinit, X should be killed by that keyboard shortcut. > Maybe nVidia is simply designed to not work with Linux... They do have a reputation of not being very open-source friendly, but other than that it works fine for a lot of people. I prefer AMD, though. Petter -- "I'm ionized" "Are you sure?" "I'm positive."
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