David, you just solved an unrelated problem I had where my keyboard settings inside XFCE weren't being respected. I wondered why...
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 1:20 PM, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > Quoting Patrick Bartek (nemomm...@gmail.com): > > On Mon, 09 Feb 2015, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Note that X now by default disables control-alt-backspace now. This > > > is an Ubuntu page but it documents it. > > > > Right. I forgot. You're using Jessie. Another "improvement." > > > > Why do these people need to "fix" things that aren't broken? > > "They" rationalize saying it's to prevent people from "accidentally" > > shutting down X (or whatever) and loosing data. I say: "You can't fix > > stupid!" > > I think X made this change several years/Debian distributions ago. If > you restore the facility in /etc/default/keyboard then upgrading seems > to keep your change. You have had to add it yourself when installing > afresh. > > eg /etc/default/keyboard > > --8<-------- > > # Check /usr/share/doc/keyboard-configuration/README.Debian for > # documentation on what to do after having modified this file. > > # The following variables describe your keyboard and can have the same > # values as the XkbModel, XkbLayout, XkbVariant and XkbOptions options > # in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. > > #XKBMODEL="pc105" > XKBMODEL="latitude" > XKBLAYOUT="gb" > XKBVARIANT="" > XKBOPTIONS="caps:none,compose:menu,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" > > # If you don't want to use the XKB layout on the console, you can > # specify an alternative keymap. Make sure it will be accessible > # before /usr is mounted. > # KMAP=/etc/console-setup/defkeymap.kmap.gz > BACKSPACE="guess" > > --8<-------- > > Cheers, > David. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150209182009.gc32...@alum.home > > -- Jessica K. Litwin jessicalitwin.com twitter: press5 aim: press5key skype: dr_jkl
