walt <w41ter <at> gmail.com> writes: > I often type Shift-Backspace by mistake, and I must have been doing > it since I bought my current keyboard a year ago or more. > > Just lately I've found that Shift-Backspace terminates my X session > just the way Ctrl-Alt-Backspace did in the old days. This was an > unpleasant surprise, as it's purely unintentional. > > I finally traced this strange behavior to a very old setting in my > gnome desktop config files that effectively adds three XkbOptions: > > grp grp:alts_toggle > terminate terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp > caps caps:none > > I must have copy/pasted these items from somewhere a long time ago > when trying to restore the old Ctrl-Alt-Backspace behavior, but I > can't remember where I got them. > > Anyone understand how/why those old options are now being translated > into to my current unwanted behavior? > > I'm running gentoo, which frequently updates all sorts of xorg- > related packages and drivers, so it might have been any of them, > dunno for sure. > > Any hints much appreciated :)
Yes, I've hit the same problem. I came up with this hack in .xinitrc , which "solves" the issue for me: (sleep 2 && xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = BackSpace BackSpace BackSpace BackSpace NoSymbol NoSymbol Terminate_Server")& The sleep is necessary, because you have to wait till the gnome-setting-daemon sets its wrong value and set the right one afterwards. This command is handy to double check: xmodmap -pp -pk | grep Terminate_Server HTH _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
