dontzap - a application to revert dontzap setting

[Christopher Aillon]

On 04/07/2009 01:18 PM, psmith wrote:
> David wrote:
>> Section "ServerFlags"
>> Option "DontZap" "false"
>> EndSection
>>
>>
> and since were supposed to be moving away from using an xorg.conf all of
> us who want to be able to restart x (and believe me as good as those
> xorg devs think their code is it still happens quite regularly) without
> having to go to a virtual terminal etc have to regress to using one to
> keep people who want to make linux like windows or those emacs users who
> don't type to well happy.

So, an alternate suggestion is just don't upgrade to F11.  I do not 
recommend that personally, but the new behavior is only in F11+ so if 
you don't upgrade, Ctrl+Alt+Backspace will continue to work.

Or, if you decide to upgrade, just use a kickstart file when you do. 
You've established you're going to be using anaconda to upgrade since in 
order to do a yum upgrade, you'd have to edit a few .repo files, and 
you've made it clear that you won't be editing files.

I already posted earlier in this thread[1] what the kickstart file has 
to look like.  It's now also on fpaste[2].  Simply point anaconda to it 
by appending ks=[2] to the boot line, and then you will have an 
xorg.conf containing the needed lines to maintain Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.

No vts required.

[1] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg02161.html
[2] http://fpaste.org/paste/8338/plain