dontzap - a application to revert dontzap setting

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Wed Apr 8 13:29:56 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 00:29 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 15:46 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 20:37 +0100, psmith wrote:
> > > Adam Jackson wrote:
> > > > Please.  Stop talking about xkit.  We have a library for this already,
> > > > it's called pyxf86config.  Writing the change to the X log is stupid if
> > > > you can also do it as a runtime XKB change, like mapping Caps Lock to
> > > > Compose like a sensible person.
> > >
> > > well since the xorg devs decided to disable x zapping please suggest the 
> > > right solution?
> > 
> > I said it.  Right there.  The bit about being a runtime XKB feature
> > already.
> 
> Even though the time I most likely want ctl-alt-bs is BEFORE any login,
> and quite possibly before GDM has even run, because the video driver is
> b0rked?
> 
> Hey I have a genius idea. ENABLE ctl-alt-bs by default, and DISABLE it
> as part of the user login process. Are we expecting people to be using
> Emacs at the GDM login screen?

This is an entirely reasonable idea, but again, gdm is completely
capable of doing this itself without modifying xorg.conf.

- ajax
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