Re: dontzap - a application to revert dontzap setting
On Wednesday 08 April 2009 23:42:25 Anders Rayner-Karlsson wrote:
* Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad(a)users.sourceforge.net> [20090408
23:34]:
> Anders Rayner-Karlsson wrote:
>> Has anyone looked at and tested the AllowDeactivateGrabs and
>> AllowClosedownGrabs options in their xorg.conf instead of blindly
>> relying on C-A-Bs to shoot the server in the head? If they still have
>> keyboard interrupt, these options may actually be a better solution
>> than killing the entire X server.
>
> I looked at them while struggling with
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473825... they didn't work
> (probably because the actual problem in said bug was not, in fact, a bad
> grab, but something a little stranger). In the process of investigating
> them, I learned they had (reportedly) been removed in current X.org.
So it has.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=5e43cd28692bc05cac80f38
b47104a26c0524385
Thanks for pointing that out.
Is there actually any kind of replacement for this? Because I have had to use
that feature many, many times (usually due to a browser "hanging", and yes, I
know it would be nice to fix all the bugs, but ...).