problem with xorg and xmonad in arch linux

Unregistered · 05-29-2009, 08:26 PM

Q1) Ctrl-Alt-backspace does not shutdown x, I have to switch to another console and switch back to Ctrl-C even though I have added a serverflags section with the dontzap option into my xorg.conf in accordance with the wiki, how do I solve this problem too?
PS in this case my .xinitrc has the line exec xterm

Q2) I tried putting /usr/bin/xmonad in my xinitrc file and it worked but it gave me an error when I checked the console, what should I do to solve the error?

Code:

Setting master
/home/user/.xmonad/xmonad-i386-linux: executeFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
Dropping master

Here's my xorg config file

Code:

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
	Option "DontZap" "false"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "dri2"
	Load  "dri"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "extmod"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName    "Monitor Model"
	HorizSync     30.0 - 130.0
	VertRefresh   50.0 - 100.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "NoAccel"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "SWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "ColorKey"           	# <i>
        #Option     "CacheLines"         	# <i>
        #Option     "Dac6Bit"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "DRI"                	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoDDC"              	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShowCache"          	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "XvMCSurfaces"       	# <i>
        #Option     "PageFlip"           	# [<bool>]
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "intel"
	VendorName  "Intel Corporation"
	BoardName   "Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller"
	BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth 24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     1
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     4
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     8
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     15
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     16
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

userlander · 06-03-2009, 06:33 PM

Idiotic X developers turned off the ctrl+alt+backspace option to satisfy emacs users and a handful of morons who hit ctrl+alt+bkspce "by accident" and lost all their work. 'Option "DontZap" "False"' in xorg.conf worked initially, but they've f-cked it up again so they could be d!cks and feel self-important and powerful. You have to add:

Code:

setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp

to your ~/.xinitrc file to regain normal functionality that has worked fine for 99.9% of unix users for decades.