How to enable CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE

[Bryn M. Reeves]

On 07/06/2011 11:45 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 07/06/2011 06:30 PM, John Aldrich wrote:
>> On Wed July 6 2011, Andras Simon wrote:
>>> I'm not sure I understand what you want to achieve, but
>>>   man system-setup-keyboard
>>> may help you.
>>>
>> What would one put in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard if one DID want to enable 
>> CTL+ALT+BKSP to kill X?
>>
>> I looked at the man page for system-setup-keyboard, but it doesn't say 
>> *anything* about re-enabling CTL+ALT+BKSP...
>>
>> I, for one, would find it convenient to re-enable that, as there are times 
>> (such as an updated graphics driver) where it would be convenient to 
>> restart X without having to completely change init levels or restart the 
>> whole computer.
> 
> I don't know what the incantation would be....
> 
> However, a logout/login would suggest that is all that is needed to
> restart the X server.

Not much use when your desktop session is already too broken to respond to a
polite logout request.

It's like Alan said: set the DontZap option to "false" but it needs to go into
the ServerFlags section rather than the InputClass section that you have by
default in the 00-system-setup-keyboard.conf file.

So something like:

$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-zap-my-x-up.conf
Section "ServerFlags"
        Option    "DontZap"    "false"
EndSection

Regards,
Bryn.