On Sat 10 Jun 2023 at 09:52:43 (+), Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> Is there a simple way, without installing gazillion programs and
> tweaking tens of configuration files, to have at startup the
> combination of CTRL and left ALT produce the same result as AltGr?
> This must work for both console and
due to Windows screen lock attempts on Jessie!
:-)
From: Martin Read
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 4:31 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Disable Ctrl-Alt-Del in Jessie
On 30/11/15 00:05, Bit Head wrote:
> In Jessie, this is proving
On 30/11/15 00:05, Bit Head wrote:
In Jessie, this is proving to be more challenging as there is no inittab
file to edit, and while I could create one, it would only contain
commented lines, having a null effect. It seems that in prior releases,
one had to explicitly say what to do in order for
In previous Debian releases I would simply comment out the line controlling
Ctrl-Alt-Del key presses in the /etc/inittab file, and this would prevent any
action from occurring due to pressing those keys. As an example, here is what
I had in the inittab file in Wheezy:
# What to do when CTRL
I managed to solve it by purging console-common completely
I think the config files left behind caused some issue.
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there and one of
the things I was missing was a nice splash screen for the bootup. I
replaced splashy with plymouth and it is really nice, but afterwards I can
not see the console with CTRL+ALT+F1. I actually don't see anything but
thelast screen on the X desktop.
Test:
CTRL+ALT+F1
login as a n
>
> Change that symlink to point to poweroff.target:
>
> # ln -s
/lib/systemd/system/poweroff.target/etc/systemd/system/ctrl-alt-del.target
That worked fine to change ctrl-alt-del to 'poweroff' butis it possible
to return to the old 'cold reboot' behavior?
On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 11:45:10 +
Darac Marjal wrote:
> > In a distribution I used long ago (Slackware 96 ? Mandrake 6.0 ?)
> > Ctrl-Alt-F12 would take you to a screen displaying in real time the kernel
> > messages.
> > Is that possible in Debian ?
> If yo
On 11/13/2014 11:50 AM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:
> In a distribution I used long ago (Slackware 96 ? Mandrake 6.0 ?)
> Ctrl-Alt-F12 would take you to a screen displaying in real time the kernel
> messages.
>
> Is that possible in Debian ?
Yes. With syslog-ng, you can u
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 07:47:44AM -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
> In a distribution I used long ago (Slackware 96 ? Mandrake 6.0 ?)
> Ctrl-Alt-F12 would take you to a screen displaying in real time the kernel
> messages.
>
> Is that possible in Debian ?
If you're using
In a distribution I used long ago (Slackware 96 ? Mandrake 6.0 ?) Ctrl-Alt-F12
would take you to a screen displaying in real time the kernel messages.
Is that possible in Debian ?
Cheers,
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On Fri 14 Feb 2014 at 21:56:45 +0100, Siard wrote:
> Well, relinking /lib/systemd/system/ctrl-alt-del.target to
> poweroff.target appears to be doing the trick, and I guess that this
> will remain unaffected.
> Thanks for your contribution.
Thank you for taking the time to respond. U
> Both of these methods appear to be working:
> - relinking /lib/systemd/system/ctrl-alt-del.target to poweroff.target;
> - creating /etc/systemd/system/ctrl-alt-del.target and linking _that_
> to /lib/systemd/system/poweroff.target.
Please do the latter as I suggested.
Doing the
Brian wrote:
> /lib/systemd/system/ctrl-alt-del.target is linked to reboot.target in
> the same directory. It requires systemd-reboot.service which contains
> the line
>
>ExecStart=/bin/systemctl --force reboot
>
> Changing 'reboot' to 'poweroff'
William Unruh wrote off-list:
> I cannot post to the news list.
OK, let me direct it to the list then.
> It is really annoying that they have decided to make ACD reboot rather
> than halt by default (really horrible for a laptop)
> But according to my Mageia,
> Ctrl-Alt-Delet
Michael Biebl wrote:
> The current behaviour is defined by the ctrl-alt-del.target. See
> # ls -ls /lib/systemd/system/ctrl-alt-del.target
> /lib/systemd/system/ctrl-alt-del.target -> reboot.target
>
>
> Change that symlink to point to poweroff.target:
>
>
On Fri 14 Feb 2014 at 18:23:14 +0100, Siard wrote:
> Using the console, I used to switch off my PC with Ctrl-Alt-Del.
> For that to work, I had these lines in /etc/inittab:
>
> # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed.
> ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/poweroff
systemd doesn't
>
> # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed.
> ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/poweroff
>
> It was the easiest way to switch off the machine that I knew of.
> Now is there something similar with systemd?
> Ctrl-Alt-Del appears to reboot the machine now.
The current behaviour i
Using the console, I used to switch off my PC with Ctrl-Alt-Del.
For that to work, I had these lines in /etc/inittab:
# What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed.
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/poweroff
It was the easiest way to switch off the machine that I knew of.
Now is there something similar with
On Sat 15 Jun 2013 at 12:32:52 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
> I usually activate ctrl-alt-bksp during the post-installation phase
> when I install/purge/configure stuff I want/don't-want that differs
> from the default installation. Some of that requires a reboot
> anyway, so us
ut an interesting situation. Nowadays, most users
would
not know of ctrl-alt-backspace as a way of exiting X. The DEs have
seen
to that. But, for the present, it can still be used if you know how to
activate it, as you have discovered.
You asked about ctrl-alt-del (or some other key combinatio
s I was seeing.)
>
> (1) I installed Wheezy from scratch with desktop=xfce from the
> netinst CD.
>
> (2) I looked at /etc/default/keyboard and noted no "XKBOPTIONS" line.
>
> (3) I tried "ctrl-alt-del" and "ctrl-alt-backspace". The second did
>
inal system had some left-over
cruft from previous experiments, and I don't know exactly how that
might have affected the things I was seeing.)
(1) I installed Wheezy from scratch with desktop=xfce from the netinst
CD.
(2) I looked at /etc/default/keyboard and noted no "XKBOPTION
Hi Brian,
You are absolutely right! Having asked the question, I owe the group
answers.
Unfortunately real life intruded its ugly head last week. I do plan
to do the tests and report back as soon as I can.
Rick
On Jun 11, 2013, at 11:26 AM, Brian wrote:
He could consider providing
On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 04:30:02 +0200, Rick Thomas wrote:
I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it comes
fresh-out-of-the-box Wheezy.
I'd like to have -- restart the window manager.
I've configured it to do so with "dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-
configuration", but (even after a r
On Tue 11 Jun 2013 at 20:28:00 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 11. Juni 2013 schrieb Brian:
> > On Wed 12 Jun 2013 at 01:46:06 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 07:27:35PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > > > I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much
f-the-box Wheezy.
I'd like to have-- restart the window manager.
Isn't it-- to kill the window manager?
Or do I fail?
Hans
Actually, it seems to depend on your window manager. Ctrl-ALt-BkSp does
nothing on KDE.
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Am Dienstag, 11. Juni 2013 schrieb Brian:
> On Wed 12 Jun 2013 at 01:46:06 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 07:27:35PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > > I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it comes
> > > fresh-out-of-the-box Wheezy.
> > >
> > > I'd like
On Mon 10 Jun 2013 at 10:37:28 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> Try echo
> 'XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,compose:caps,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"' >>
> /etc/default/keyboard
Does this do anything special? Or, putting it another way, does it do
anything more than 'dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configura
; JFTR, aside from anything else you have to do, regarding
> --, check your /etc/inittab
>
> e.g.
> less /etc/inittab
> [...]
> # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed.
> ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now
> [...]
>
> I don't run a DE, so don
pkg-reconfigure keyboard-
> configuration", but (even after a reboot) that doesn't seem to do
> the job.
>
> Anybody know what I'm missing?
JFTR, aside from anything else you have to do, regarding
--, check your /etc/inittab
e.g.
less /etc/inittab
[...]
# What to do whe
- Original Message -
From: "Rick Thomas"
To: "debian-user List Debian"
Sent: Sunday, June 9, 2013 10:27:35 PM
Subject: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?
>I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it comes
>fres
* Rick Thomas [2013-06-10 11:19 -0700]:
>
> On Jun 10, 2013, at 1:37 AM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
>
> >Try echo
> >'XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,compose:caps,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"' >>
> >/etc/default/keyboard
> >
> >Elimar
>
> Thanks, Elimar.
>
> I'll give it a try. Can you give me a poin
On Sun 09 Jun 2013 at 23:51:36 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
> I've configured -- to do so with "dpkg-
> reconfigure keyboard-configuration", but (even after a reboot) that
> doesn't seem to do the job.
>
> Specifically, -- did nothing before I did
> "dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration", and it
ox Wheezy.
> >>
> >>I'd like to have -- restart the window manager.
> >>
> >>I've configured it to do so with "dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-
> >>configuration", but (even after a reboot) that doesn't seem to do
> >>the jo
Dne, 10. 06. 2013 04:27:35 je Rick Thomas napisal(a):
I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it comes
fresh-out-of-the-box Wheezy.
I'd like to have -- restart the window manager.
I've configured it to do so with "dpkg-reconfigure
keyboard-configuration", but (even after
On Du, 09 iun 13, 23:51:36, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
> It's a Macintosh keyboard. The "backspace" key on my keyboard is
> marked "delete" -- the "del" key is *also* marked "delete". Hence
> some of the confusion.
...
> Specifically, -- did nothing before I did
> "dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configurat
o so with "dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-
configuration", but (even after a reboot) that doesn't seem to do
the job.
Don't you mean Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (not Del)? And this doesn't restart
the window manager, but it shuts down the X server.
Thanks for the clarification, Andrei!
Of cou
ure keyboard-
> configuration", but (even after a reboot) that doesn't seem to do
> the job.
Don't you mean Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (not Del)? And this doesn't restart
the window manager, but it shuts down the X server.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it comes
fresh-out-of-the-box Wheezy.
I'd like to have -- restart the window manager.
I've configured it to do so with "dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-
configuration", but (even after a reboot) that doesn't seem to do the
job.
Anybody
rudu wrote:
Le 29/04/2010 20:42, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit :
rudupere wrote:
Bingo !!
That was it, an old bug from nvidia drivers.
The workaround that worked for me :
Append the line :
options nvidia NVreg_UseVBios=0
to the file /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-nkc.conf
A big thank you to Justin
Le 29/04/2010 20:42, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit :
rudupere wrote:
Le 29/04/2010 05:55, Justin The Cynical a écrit :
rudu wrote:
Launching a graphic session with startx instead of gdm/kdm doesn't
change anything except that I don't even have any flashing prompt on
my black screen anymore.
Th
rudupere wrote:
Le 29/04/2010 05:55, Justin The Cynical a écrit :
rudu wrote:
In single user mode, I can login on the first virtual console but
every other ctrl+alt+Fn I hit only gives me a black screen with a
prompt flashing in the upper left corner ...
IIRC, in single user mode, this is
Le 29/04/2010 05:55, Justin The Cynical a écrit :
rudu wrote:
In single user mode, I can login on the first virtual console but
every other ctrl+alt+Fn I hit only gives me a black screen with a
prompt flashing in the upper left corner ...
IIRC, in single user mode, this is normal
rudu wrote:
In single user mode, I can login on the first virtual console but every
other ctrl+alt+Fn I hit only gives me a black screen with a prompt
flashing in the upper left corner ...
IIRC, in single user mode, this is normal.
Launching a graphic session with startx instead of gdm/kdm
Le 28/04/2010 18:30, Anand Sivaram a écrit :
What is your default runlevel. It should be 2 in normal mode. You
could find it from the command "runlevel".
# runlevel
N 2
Anyway, just see your /etc/inittab and make sure that the required
gettys are there.
For my debian squeeze system, the
What is your default runlevel. It should be 2 in normal mode. You
could find it from the command "runlevel".
Anyway, just see your /etc/inittab and make sure that the required
gettys are there.
For my debian squeeze system, these are the relevant lines.
# Note that on most Debian systems tty7
gcc to
gcc-4.3 and that got rid of the message.
Thank you Hugo, I managed to compile the proprietary driver.
Now every ctrl+alt+Fn leads to a complete black screen, with no
prompt or cursor or anything.
Ctrl+alt+F7 works as expected.
Could it be that my system stopped crea
ot;.
-> The CC version check failed:
[...]
Indeed. Forget this if it is beating a dead horse, but did you have
gcc-4.3 + gcc-4.4 both installed? I did and I set the symlink gcc to
gcc-4.3 and that got rid of the message.
Thank you Hugo, I managed to com
ith CC="cc".
>>>> -> The CC version check failed:
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Indeed. Forget this if it is beating a dead horse, but did you have
>> gcc-4.3 + gcc-4.4 both installed? I did and I set th
ssage.
Thank you Hugo, I managed to compile the proprietary driver.
Now every ctrl+alt+Fn leads to a complete black screen, with no prompt
or cursor or anything.
Ctrl+alt+F7 works as expected.
Could it be that my system stopped creating the consoles at boot time ?
What should I check and where ?
rudu wrote:
Le 26/04/2010 20:55, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit :
rudu wrote:
Le 26/04/2010 19:43, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit :
rudu wrote:
Hi,
Running squeeze on AMD64 arch, my system recently stopped to let me
get my consoles after I hit the ctrl+alt+Fn keys (n = 1 to 6).
When did it stop?
I
Le 26/04/2010 20:55, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit :
rudu wrote:
Le 26/04/2010 19:43, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit :
rudu wrote:
Hi,
Running squeeze on AMD64 arch, my system recently stopped to let me
get my consoles after I hit the ctrl+alt+Fn keys (n = 1 to 6).
When did it stop?
I can't be
rudu wrote:
Le 26/04/2010 19:43, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit :
rudu wrote:
Hi,
Running squeeze on AMD64 arch, my system recently stopped to let me
get my consoles after I hit the ctrl+alt+Fn keys (n = 1 to 6).
When did it stop?
I can't be sure but that may coincide with that kernel*-
Le 26/04/2010 19:43, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit :
rudu wrote:
Hi,
Running squeeze on AMD64 arch, my system recently stopped to let me
get my consoles after I hit the ctrl+alt+Fn keys (n = 1 to 6).
When did it stop?
I can't be sure but that may coincide with that kernel*-trunk thing,
w
On Monday April 26 2010 11:28:36 am rudu wrote:
> Running squeeze on AMD64 arch, my system recently stopped to let me get
> my consoles after I hit the ctrl+alt+Fn keys (n = 1 to 6).
> Instead, my monitor first blackens then presents me the exact replica of
> my graphic session
rudu wrote:
Hi,
Running squeeze on AMD64 arch, my system recently stopped to let me get
my consoles after I hit the ctrl+alt+Fn keys (n = 1 to 6).
When did it stop?
Instead, my monitor first blackens then presents me the exact replica of
my graphic session's screen except that it r
Hi,
Running squeeze on AMD64 arch, my system recently stopped to let me get
my consoles after I hit the ctrl+alt+Fn keys (n = 1 to 6).
Instead, my monitor first blackens then presents me the exact replica of
my graphic session's screen except that it reacts to nothing, there is
no mouse c
Never having fully understood what the trouble was, I achieved to
solve the grief produced by playing with the kde fonts through system
settings and, of course, uninstalling pulseaudio, which I had thought
to have been already uninstalled.
Thank you all for your time.
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On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 07:09:28PM EST, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 02:04:16PM +0200, Jason Filippou
> was heard to say:
> > When I logged into my Debian partition, I realized that the system
> > fonts had all been altered and made quite uglier and less readable
> > and my sy
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 02:04:16PM +0200, Jason Filippou
was heard to say:
> When I logged into my Debian partition, I
> realized that the system fonts had all been altered and made quite
> uglier and less readable and my system sounds aren't playing by
> default
This sounds a lot like you had
* Chris Jones [2009 Nov 13 14:15 -0600]:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 07:04:16AM EST, Jason Filippou wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I run Testing with KDE and accidentally hit ctrl alt f11 instead of
> > some kde effects combination. As a result of this, I was given a
&g
* Tony Nelson [2009 Nov 13 11:30 -0600]:
> On 09-11-13 08:08:35, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > * Jason Filippou [2009 Nov 13 06:22
> > -0600]:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I run Testing with KDE and accidentally hit ctrl alt f11 instead of
> > > some
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 07:04:16AM EST, Jason Filippou wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I run Testing with KDE and accidentally hit ctrl alt f11 instead of
> some kde effects combination. As a result of this, I was given a
> prompt I couldn't propery interact with,
What did the prompt
On 09-11-13 08:08:35, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * Jason Filippou [2009 Nov 13 06:22
> -0600]:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I run Testing with KDE and accidentally hit ctrl alt f11 instead of
> > some kde effects combination. As a result of this, I was given a
> > pro
* Jason Filippou [2009 Nov 13 06:22 -0600]:
> Hello,
>
> I run Testing with KDE and accidentally hit ctrl alt f11 instead of
> some kde effects combination. As a result of this, I was given a
> prompt I couldn't propery interact with,
That key combination put you into virt
Hello,
I run Testing with KDE and accidentally hit ctrl alt f11 instead of
some kde effects combination. As a result of this, I was given a
prompt I couldn't propery interact with, and then I hit cltr alt
delete to restart my system. When I logged into my Debian partition, I
realized tha
and used it to install testing.
> >>
> >> Everything went well, but after installation, when I tried using
> >> ctrl-alt- F1 to switch to a virual console, nothing happened.
> >>
> >> How do I go about getting such a console? I can get a root command
> &g
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:27:24 -0400, Paul Gallaway wrote:
>> I find myself wondering if there's some setting (about the availability
>> of ctrl-alt-F1) that has a different default value, and I have to find
>> it and change it.
> You didn't say but did you try anot
llation, when I tried using
>> ctrl-alt- F1 to switch to a virual console, nothing happened.
>>
>> How do I go about getting such a console? I can get a root command
>> window, but if I end up upgrading X sometime, that doesn't seem the
>> best place to be con
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 03:07:04AM +, Hendrik Boom
wrote:
> Everything went well, but after installation, when I tried
> using ctrl-alt- F1 to switch to a virual console, nothing
> happened.
Do you have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file? If so, do you have
"XkbLayout" defined in
; week, and used it to install testing.
> >>
> >> Everything went well, but after installation, when I tried using
> >> ctrl-alt- F1 to switch to a virual console, nothing happened.
> >>
> >> How do I go about getting such a console? I can get a root comma
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:27:24 -0400, Paul Gallaway wrote:
>> I find myself wondering if there's some setting (about the availability
>> of ctrl-alt-F1) that has a different default value, and I have to find
>> it and change it.
> You didn't say but did you try anot
installation, when I tried using
>> ctrl-alt- F1 to switch to a virual console, nothing happened.
>>
>> How do I go about getting such a console? I can get a root command
>> window, but if I end up upgrading X sometime, that doesn't seem the
>> best place to
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:07:04PM EDT, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> I just downloaded and burned a new Debian testing netinstall CD last
> week, and used it to install testing.
>
> Everything went well, but after installation, when I tried using ctrl-alt-
> F1 to switch to a virual c
Justin wrote:
Is X running on tty1 now? That's where in runs in Fedora, for example.
That would make ctrl + alt +F1 appear to do nothing...
At me runs on tty7.
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Is X running on tty1 now? That's where in runs in Fedora, for example. That
would make ctrl + alt +F1 appear to do nothing...
> Everything went well, but after installation, when I tried using
>>> ctrl-alt- F1 to switch to a virual console, nothing happened.
>>>
>>> How do I go about getting such a console? I can get a root command
>>> window, but if I end up upgrading X sometime
On Mon,14.Sep.09, 03:07:04, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> I just downloaded and burned a new Debian testing netinstall CD last
> week, and used it to install testing.
>
> Everything went well, but after installation, when I tried using ctrl-alt-
> F1 to switch to a virual console, n
> I find myself wondering if there's some setting (about the availability
> of ctrl-alt-F1) that has a different default value, and I have to find it
> and change it.
You didn't say but did you try another TTY? ctrl+alt+F2 through F4
(maybe up to F6?).
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On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:02:00 +0200, go...@dobosevic.com wrote:
> Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> I just downloaded and burned a new Debian testing netinstall CD last
>> week, and used it to install testing.
>>
>> Everything went well, but after installation, when I tried usin
Hendrik Boom wrote:
I just downloaded and burned a new Debian testing netinstall CD last
week, and used it to install testing.
Everything went well, but after installation, when I tried using ctrl-alt-
F1 to switch to a virual console, nothing happened.
How do I go about getting such a
I just downloaded and burned a new Debian testing netinstall CD last
week, and used it to install testing.
Everything went well, but after installation, when I tried using ctrl-alt-
F1 to switch to a virual console, nothing happened.
How do I go about getting such a console? I can get a root
emikaadeo wrote:
> I just enabled keyboard layout in
> K>Systemsettings>Regional&Language>Keyboard Layout, and there,
> in advanced tab I check: Key sequence to kill X server
> (Control+Alt+Backspace).
I filed a bug against xserver-xorg about the disappearance of
control-alt-backspace, and the m
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> Andrei Popescu wrote: (about getting ctl-alt-backspace back):
>> You need
>>
>> Option "DontZap" "false"
>>
>> in the ServerFlags section of your xorg.conf (check the manpage for
>> xorg.conf, I'm writing from memory).
>
> This worked for about a week -- but na
Jan Willem Stumpel said:
> widux wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> for me
>> right-Alt + Print + k
>> does the trick!
>>
>> Greetings
>
> How on earth did you find this out?
You mean you don't hit those keys accidentally all the time?
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On Lu,08.iun.09, 19:34:24, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> This worked for about a week -- but nannyism has crept further. In
> the latest Sid, even this trick doesn't work anymore. How to get
> it back, I wonder.
Make sure you're using LeftAlt instead of RightAlt (this could be mapped
to AltGr) an
On Lu,08.iun.09, 19:58:19, widux wrote:
> for me
> right-Alt + Print + k
^
You probably mean SysRq:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key
Regards,
Andrei
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signature.
Am Montag 08 Juni 2009 22:28:33 schrieb Rick Thomas:
> On Jun 8, 2009, at 3:29 PM, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> > widux wrote:
> >
> > Am Montag 08 Juni 2009 19:34:24 schrieb Jan Willem Stumpel:
> >>> Andrei Popescu wrote: (about getting ctl-alt-backspace back):
> You need
>
> Option
On Jun 8, 2009, at 3:29 PM, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
widux wrote:
Am Montag 08 Juni 2009 19:34:24 schrieb Jan Willem Stumpel:
Andrei Popescu wrote: (about getting ctl-alt-backspace back):
You need
Option"DontZap" "false"
in the ServerFlags section of your xorg.conf (check the manpage
e, but I've heard about it first from
Michael Prokop when I discovered that a version of GRML¹ would not
reboot properly.
> Also, do you know where this is set, so I could change it? Or is
> it hard-coded somehow? Anyway, thanks for the information.
Wikipedia has a good article² about it.
widux wrote:
> Hi,
>
> for me
> right-Alt + Print + k
> does the trick!
>
> Greetings
How on earth did you find this out?
Also, do you know where this is set, so I could change it? Or is
it hard-coded somehow? Anyway, thanks for the information.
Regards, Jan
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On 8 Jun 2009, at 18:58, widux wrote:
Am Montag 08 Juni 2009 19:34:24 schrieb Jan Willem Stumpel:
Andrei Popescu wrote: (about getting ctl-alt-backspace back):
You need
Option"DontZap" "false"
in the ServerFlags section of your xorg.conf (check the manpage for
xorg.conf, I'm writing fro
Am Montag 08 Juni 2009 19:34:24 schrieb Jan Willem Stumpel:
> Andrei Popescu wrote: (about getting ctl-alt-backspace back):
> > You need
> >
> > Option "DontZap" "false"
> >
> > in the ServerFlags section of your xorg.conf (check the manpage for
> > xorg.conf, I'm writing from memory).
>
> Thi
Andrei Popescu wrote: (about getting ctl-alt-backspace back):
> You need
>
> Option"DontZap" "false"
>
> in the ServerFlags section of your xorg.conf (check the manpage for
> xorg.conf, I'm writing from memory).
This worked for about a week -- but nannyism has crept further. In
the late
On 2009-05-31_14:03:06, thveillon.debian wrote:
> marc wrote:
> > Jan Willem Stumpel said:
> >
> >> IMHO disabling an old and trusted functionality is simply introducing a
> >> bug, made worse by keeping silent about it (no word about it in
> >> changelog.gz or NEWS.Debian.gz).
> >>
> >> It must s
Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 02:03:06PM +0100, thveillon.debian wrote:
>
>> Note to self : disabling "rm"
>
> The default of both KDE and GNOME is to use the trashcan. There's also
> safe-rm. The literal 'rm -rf /' has also been disabled.
>
>> and "fdisk" commands, catching "s
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 02:03:06PM +0100, thveillon.debian wrote:
> Note to self : disabling "rm"
The default of both KDE and GNOME is to use the trashcan. There's also
safe-rm. The literal 'rm -rf /' has also been disabled.
> and "fdisk" commands, catching "shutdown"
> and "reboot" commands to
marc wrote:
> Jan Willem Stumpel said:
>
>> IMHO disabling an old and trusted functionality is simply introducing a
>> bug, made worse by keeping silent about it (no word about it in
>> changelog.gz or NEWS.Debian.gz).
>>
>> It must surely be a tiny minority of users who press
>> control-alt-backs
Jan Willem Stumpel said:
> IMHO disabling an old and trusted functionality is simply introducing a
> bug, made worse by keeping silent about it (no word about it in
> changelog.gz or NEWS.Debian.gz).
>
> It must surely be a tiny minority of users who press
> control-alt-backspace "by mistake"; I
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