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After the recent update (for which I used the steps outlined in this thread), I can't use ctrl-alt-backspace to log out of X any more. The only way to kill my session seems to be a full reboot.
What gives?
And in the midst of such perfection,
I can't help but feel diseased.
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Its an upstream decision. If you want to complain somewhere, complain there.
See http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/ … 00522.html on latest discussion on the topic.
The workaround is to add
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DontZap" "false"
EndSection
to your xorg.conf and get the dumb key combo back
Last edited by dolby (2009-04-12 01:02:31)
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Weird.
Well if that's the decision it's the decision. But is there a different key combination to logout of X or has it been made impossible now? If there's no way to do it at ALL, then I'll start complaining to the X folk themselves, but if there's a way to logout of X with a different key combo then I'm not in too bad shape.
Still, thanks for the fix! Now... I guess I have to reboot my machine to get that fix to work.
Last edited by SomeGuyDude (2009-04-12 01:08:13)
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No you just have to restart X.
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And... how do I restart X? The only way I knew how to do that was Ctrl-Alt-Backspace but I believe I already established that I can't do it now.
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And... how do I restart X? The only way I knew how to do that was Ctrl-Alt-Backspace but I believe I already established that I can't do it now.
If you're in X pull up a terminal (xterm, aterm, whatever you use) and:
ps ax | grep X
you should see something like
5445 tty7 Ss+ 10:04 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -audit 0 -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth
so now
kill 5445
Another option is to grep for gdm/kdm and kill that process - it will take X down with it
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Its an upstream decision. If you want to complain somewhere, complain there.
See http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/ … 00522.html on latest discussion on the topic.
The workaround is to addSection "ServerFlags" Option "DontZap" "false" EndSection
to your xorg.conf and get the dumb key combo back
where do you put this if you don't have a xorg.conf file (that is, hal handles that stuff)? I can't seem to find it in google. seems like everyone is using xorg.conf...
note: I don't know what I'm doing.
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I haven't been able to find anything either (I managed to totally bork my xorg.conf and that made it delete itself somehow), which resulted in me being in your situation of not having an xorg at all. So I'm just using the workaround above. Kind of a PITA, but it functions well enough I suppose.
And in the midst of such perfection,
I can't help but feel diseased.
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