Opened 14 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

Last modified 10 years ago

#3077 closed task (fixed)

Control+Alt+Backspace

Reported by: Phil Hart Owned by: blfs-book@…
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: BOOK Version: SVN
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

URL: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/x-setup.htm The sequence "Control+Alt+Backspace" no longer appears to work, due to upstream changes. Try instead: '"Use Control+Alt+F1" to return to your terminal, and use Control+C to terminate the X server.'

You might also want to add a link to http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=7956 for those of us, like me, who cannot do with Control+Alt+Backspace. :)

Change History (6)

comment:1 by ken@…, 14 years ago

Thanks for the info. I've been using setxkbmap in .xinitrc (so, on a per-user basis).

setxkbmap -option "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"

To pass Control-C to the server, I assume you have to be in the login xterm ? Similarly, Control-Alt-F1 will need to be followed by Control-C to kill the server ?

I think the version currently in the book is supposed to still accept Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, this is only for newer releases in the 1.7 series or later.

comment:2 by Randy McMurchy, 13 years ago

Milestone: future6.7

Updated milestone to 6.7

comment:3 by ken@…, 12 years ago

Update: for the keyboard specification (whether in xorg.conf or in a file in xorg.conf.d)

 Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl_alt_bksp"

comment:4 by bdubbs@…, 12 years ago

Milestone: 6.7current

comment:5 by bdubbs@…, 12 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

I'm going to mark this fixed because it is in "Setting up X Input Devices". It was fixed at least 14 months ago.

comment:6 by bdubbs@…, 10 years ago

Milestone: current

Milestone current deleted

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