ctrl alt backspace doesn't exit X ??

Pooped · 01-20-2010, 08:47 AM

How do i force quit x? using a key combo.

mdg · 01-20-2010, 09:10 AM

If ctrl-alt-backspace doesn't work, the machine is probably frozen (or your keyboard died

)

You can raise skinny elephants to exit gracefully.

GrapefruiTgirl · 01-20-2010, 09:15 AM

Kinda premature to guess the machine is frozen

given the recent HAL code and newer versions of X, perhaps among other things.

Magic SysRq will work if you have it configured, but before doing that, if the OP just wants to kill X, but doesn't want to reboot the whole machine, why not try switching to a different VT with CTRL-ALT-Fn and logging in, then either switch to a non-X runlevel, or give a `killall X` or `gdm stop` sort of command?

Sasha

Pooped · 01-21-2010, 08:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GrapefruiTgirl

Kinda premature to guess the machine is frozen

given the recent HAL code and newer versions of X, perhaps among other things.

Magic SysRq will work if you have it configured, but before doing that, if the OP just wants to kill X, but doesn't want to reboot the whole machine, why not try switching to a different VT with CTRL-ALT-Fn and logging in, then either switch to a non-X runlevel, or give a `killall X` or `gdm stop` sort of command?

Sasha

killall X works but the problem is i have to be root to use it... my video gets pooped every so often and i can't see poop all so what do i need to do to let a normal user use killall X without having type a password, that way ill just assign the keys to it.

AlucardZero · 01-21-2010, 08:48 AM

Re-disable DontZap in your xorg.conf.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Don...0Jaunty%209.04

pixellany · 01-21-2010, 09:26 AM

"Init 3" works nicely.....

I was used to distros enabling ctrl-alt-backspace by default, but lately I have not seen it. Does disabling DontZap make ctrl-alt-backspace work?

pixellany · 01-21-2010, 09:27 AM

Pooped;

Watch the language please---Please edit your post above

nateb · 01-21-2010, 09:33 AM

If you're using hal, it's (I think...) best to configure it through the .fdi files. They are in /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/*.fdi from memory.

So they don't get overwritten on update, copy to etc:

Code:

cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi /etc/hal/fdi/policy/

Open 10-keymap.fdi in your editor, and add the following line in with the other merge lines (along with your keymap:

Code:

<merge key="input.xkb.options" type="string">terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp</merge>

Finally restart hal - that should do the trick.

Of course, if you're not using hal, ignore this post!

Pooped · 01-23-2010, 07:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nateb

If you're using hal, it's (I think...) best to configure it through the .fdi files. They are in /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/*.fdi from memory.

So they don't get overwritten on update, copy to etc:

Code:

cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi /etc/hal/fdi/policy/

Open 10-keymap.fdi in your editor, and add the following line in with the other merge lines (along with your keymap:

Code:

<merge key="input.xkb.options" type="string">terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp</merge>

Finally restart hal - that should do the trick.

Of course, if you're not using hal, ignore this post!

That worked.