On Fri 06 Oct 2017 at 23:54:36 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Sat 07 Oct 2017 at 09:24:01 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 11:11:52PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Sat 07 Oct 2017 at 08:30:09 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 08:37:44PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > > On Fri 06 Oct 2017 at 21:19:28 +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > for that matter, even "ctrl+alt+backspace" doesn't work to shutdown > > > > > > the > > > > > > x server. :( > > > > > > > > > > This disappeared from xorg many, many years ago. But it can be > > > > > re-enabled > > > > > in Debian. An XKBOPTIONS options is what you look for if you really > > > > > want > > > > > it. > > > > > > > > I edit /etc/default/keyboard to read as follows (also, lv3 level 3 > > > > (& 4) shift rocks!): > > > > > > > > XKBMODEL="microsoft4000" > > > > XKBLAYOUT="libsh" > > > > XKBVARIANT="basic" > > > > XKBOPTIONS="lv3:lwin_switch,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" > > > > BACKSPACE="guess" > > > > > > A neat, simple edit of a basic file. But, by itself, insufficient to > > > resurrect ctrl+alt+backspace. > > > > Oh¡ Well that's good to know. I must have the required change (I'm > > guessing your xorg.conf.d suggestion) somewhere else in that case,
That's possible, but unlikely because you seem to be aware that /etc/default/keyboard is the best location to set these parameters. Let's hope the OP, a VC user, picks up on this. > > as > > well as this. Thanks for correcting the record. > > I haven't really corrected anything. There is a fuller picture at > > https://pkg-xorg.alioth.debian.org/howto/configure-input.html > > When udev is used (on GNU/Linux, starting with squeeze), one > has totell udev to reload input-related configuration: > udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=change (that > can be found in keyboard-configuration’s README.Debian file). … and of course the change will have been made after your next boot. Cheers, David.
