Re: making Ctrl-Alt-Bksp work (was: first and only X needs to be on tty7)

[Felix Miata]

On 2014-05-06 00:13 (GMT-0700) Samuel Sieb composed:

>  Felix Miata wrote: 
> > For years, probably since the time of that document, I've had
> >      Option    "DontZap"    "off"
> >      Option    "ZapWarning"    "off" 
> > somewhere in /etc/X11/xorg.con*. It used to work. Now it fails,
> but only
> > in Fedora (at least as far back as F14, worked as recent at least as
> > F8), so far that I've noticed. 
>  I use the following that works on F20:
>  # cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-zap.conf
>  Section "ServerFlags"
>            Option "DontZap" "false"
>  EndSection 
>  Section "InputClass"
>        Identifier      "Keyboard Defaults"
>        MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
>        Option          "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
>  EndSection 
Thank you!

Turns out DontZap works with either false or off, but the difference between SUSE and 
Fedora is the addtional need for XkbOptions in Fedora, and here's why:

/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/
--- evdev	2014-01-29 22:45:32.000000000 -0500
+++ evdev-suse	2014-04-09 15:51:53.000000000 -0400
@@ -857,9 +857,9 @@
    *		yu		unicodeyz	=	+srp(latinunicodeyz):4

  ! model		=	symbols
-  $evdevkbds    =   +inet(evdev)+inet(%m)
-  applealu_jis  =   +inet(evdev)+macintosh_vndr/jp(alujiskeys)
-  *             =   +inet(evdev)
+  $evdevkbds    =   +inet(evdev)+inet(%m)+terminate(ctrl_alt_bksp)
+  applealu_jis  =   +inet(evdev)+macintosh_vndr/jp(alujiskeys)+terminate(ctrl_alt_bksp)
+  *             =   +inet(evdev)+terminate(ctrl_alt_bksp)

  ! model		layout		=	symbols

Using the SUSE evdev file in place of Fedora's my original xorg.con* that used to 
work also in Fedora works in it again without need for the XkbOptions addition.
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