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#1 2009-04-12 00:52:11

SomeGuyDude
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Can't log out of X anymore

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?


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#2 2009-04-12 01:01:40

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Re: Can't log out of X anymore

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

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#3 2009-04-12 01:04:35

SomeGuyDude
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Re: Can't log out of X anymore

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. neutral

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#4 2009-04-12 01:07:59

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Re: Can't log out of X anymore

No you just have to restart X.


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#5 2009-04-12 01:10:43

SomeGuyDude
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Re: Can't log out of X anymore

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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#6 2009-04-12 02:07:36

tj
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Re: Can't log out of X anymore

SomeGuyDude wrote:

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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#7 2009-04-12 03:20:26

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Re: Can't log out of X anymore

dolby wrote:

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

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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#8 2009-04-12 12:26:19

SomeGuyDude
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Re: Can't log out of X anymore

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.


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