3 finger salute gone in F11

[Suvayu Ali]

Tanel Valdna wrote:
> On 07/21/2009 05:58 PM, suvayu ali wrote:
>> 2009/7/21 Gabriel VLASIU <gabriel at vlasiu.net>:
>>   
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>>> On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, suvayu ali wrote:
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>>>> Is there a way to do this from the command line? I use XFCE and
>>>> WindowMaker, I found no way of doing this from XFCE. I could setup a
>>>> keyboard shortcut to get this back, but what command do I bind the key
>>>> combination to?
>>>>       
>>> cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-x11-keymap.fdi /etc/hal/fdi/policy/
>>> reboot
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> Hi Gabriel,
>>
>> I did as you suggested, but I still can't kill X by
>> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. Any thoughts?
>>
>>   
> Check your Xorg.conf file.
> 
> Find this:
> 
> Section "ServerFlags"
>     Option "DontZap"  "yes"
> EndSection
> 
> Change it to "no". And it should work again if you are lucky.
> 

I don't have an xorg.conf. Moreover I thought in fedora DontZap is set 
to no[1], the problem is the key binding to do that is not turned on
by default. Isn't that right?

Should I be filing a bug report against XFCE for not letting me change
this setting like Gnome or KDE does? What would the appropriate
component be in that case?

[1]http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/controlaltbackspace-shortcut-does-not-restart-the-x-server-in-fedora-11/

> The Ubuntu “dontzap” command has no effect on Fedora.
> 
> There are two parts to zapping: one is the permission in the server
> (Option DontZap) and one is the trigger (the Terminate_Server XKB
> symbol). To zap, you have to invoke the trigger and you must be
> allowed to zap the server.
> 
> In Ubuntu, the server by default does not allow zapping, but the
> trigger is in the default keymaps. Thus, to enable zapping it needs to
> be enabled in the configuration file (and the server requires a
> restart).
> 
> In Fedora, the server by default allows zapping, but the trigger is
> not in the default keymaps. Thus, to enable zapping it needs to be
> enabled in the keymap. This can be done at runtime.
> 
> Doing the equivalent to “dontzap -disable” in Fedora explicitly
> enables an option that’s enabled by default anyway, so it has no
> effect.
> 

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Suvayu

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