Enabling Ctrl-Alt-Backspace in 9.10

Reinhold Rumberger rrumberger at web.de
Sun Nov 15 18:15:16 UTC 2009


Am Sonntag 15 November 2009 schrieb Nigel Ridley:
> Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> > Am Sonntag 15 November 2009 schrieb Nigel Ridley:
> >> OK, this is good for a one_user_system but I have another
> >> laptop that 4 people have accounts on. How do I edit X-org.conf
> >> to enable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace?
> >
> > Usually by adding the following lines to xorg.conf, but they
> > don't seem to be effective:
> >
> > Section "ServerFlags"
> >         Option  "DontZap"       "false"
> > EndSection
> >
> > IOW, even though this is the way to do it according to "man
> > Xorg", it doesn't work here...
> >
> >   --Reinhold
> 
> According to the link that Nils gave, the xorg.conf entry should
>  be:
> 
> Section "ServerFlags"
> Option "DontZap" "no"
> EndSection

I noticed. However, according to man xorg.conf:

> Boolean options may optionally have a value specified.  When no
> value is specified, the option's value is TRUE.  The following
> boolean option val‐ ues are recognised as TRUE:
>
>           1, on, true, yes
>
> and the following boolean option values are recognised as FALSE:
>
>           0, off, false, no

So basically, we said the same thing. :-)

  --Reinhold




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