problems with system-config-display and crtl-alt-backspace

Paul Allen Newell pnewell at cs.cmu.edu
Mon Dec 28 06:52:21 UTC 2009


Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Sunday 27 December 2009 11:06 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>> On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:42:19 -0800
>> Paul Allen Newell<pnewell at cs.cmu.edu>  wrote:
>>
>>> To all:
>>>
>>> Installed f12 without any problems.
>>>
>>> Discovered that crtl-alt-backspace was disabled in f12 and how I
>>> could edit my xorg.conf to restore that feature.
>>
>> How did you discover this? Trying it in a gnome desktop? :)
>>
>>> Searched Fedora f12 web pages and they told me to install
>>> system-config-display to create an xorg.conf that matched the default
>>> that the opSys was using. Worked great and, to use the cliché,
>>> "groovy"
>>
>> Don't do that. See:
>>
>> http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/controlaltbackspace-shortcut-does-not-restart-the-x-server-in-fedora-11/ 
>>
>>
>> (with screenshots even! :)
>>
>> There is no need at all to make an xorg.conf, and as you have seen it
>> can cause problems moving forward.
>>
>> kevin
>>
>
> If the OP is interested, the command line way to do this would be to 
> have one of your login scripts like ~/.bash_profile say,
>
> setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
>
> ;)
Suvayu:

Thanks, this is interesting. So it is in .bash_profile and not .bashrc? 
Is there a similar way to do in either cshrc or, preferably, tcshrc?

Paul




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