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graysky wrote:

Subject says it all.  Under my old distro, ctrl-alt-backspace would restart X.  This doesn't seem to be the case w/ Arch.  How can I enable this behavior?

Thanks!

This is not Arch related. the new Xorg (1.6.0) disables this by default. you can re-enable it if you want. There were threads for this issue long time back. Search the forums.

@EVRAMP - Thanks, I found that through google but it seemed to apply to Ubuntu and being an Arch newbie, I didn't wanna start messing w/ stuff.

It is also in the Wiki, which you probably should read first!

rsambuca wrote:

It is also in the Wiki, which you probably should read first!

Must be a new addition.

Seriously, trying to keep up with Xorg is proving a real PITA.

Works here, to ask a really dumb question, did you restart X before testing it out?

xorg claims that there are newer ways of closing the X server.
If im on openbox now. what do i put in the logout event?

 <item label="logout">
    <action name="Execute">
      <command>kill `ps -e | grep startx| awk '{print $1}'`</command>
      <startupnotify>
        <enabled>yes</enabled>
      </startupnotify>
    </action>
  </item>

i havent tried this yet but is that something anyone else is using?

darthaxul wrote:

xorg claims that there are newer ways of closing the X server.
If im on openbox now. what do i put in the logout event?

Code:

 <item label="logout">
    <action name="Execute">
      <command>kill `ps -e | grep startx| awk '{print $1}'`</command>
      <startupnotify>
        <enabled>yes</enabled>
      </startupnotify>
    </action>
  </item>

i havent tried this yet but is that something anyone else is using?

I guess you could bind that output to a key and use it in place of Ctl+Alt+Bksp.

workaround: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=73617