On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 08:37:16PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > 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.
Yes I too like to have console work as well as x/gui terms (which I mostly live in TBH). I've now done this over a dozen times in the last month, and consistently, this works, to get the extra symbols I'm after - and yes, the Ctrl-Alt-Bksp to terminate X, but, running this afterwards: sudo dpkg-reconfigure xkb-data keyboard-configuration Perhaps this is the bit that some folks might have missed... And finally, from a straight Linux console, I also run this: sudo setupcon Voi la. Now the funky bit is the line you see above in my /etc/default/keyboard as follows: XKBLAYOUT="libsh" which means “use custom keyboard layout file named as follows: /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/libsh ” which file is a file I created by copying /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us and modifying to taste - taste some juicy Unicode characters not otherwise readily accessible, like love hearts ♥ for example :) Happy frollicking,
