604018 – CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE broken

Bug 604018 - CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE broken

Summary: CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE broken

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 576481

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Product:	openSUSE 11.3
Classification:	openSUSE
Component:	X.Org (show other bugs)
Version:	Factory
Hardware:	x86-64 openSUSE 11.3

Priority:	P5 - None Severity: Normal (vote)
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Assignee:	Forgotten User Wum0mkMcd8
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Reported:	2010-05-08 10:30 UTC by Harald Koenig
Modified:	2010-05-08 13:36 UTC (History)
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Description Harald Koenig 2010-05-08 10:30:10 UTC

using CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to kill the Xserver is broken in serveral way (of course with Option       "DontZap"  "off"):

with these xorg.conf settings (german keyboard) it works
  Option       "XkbModel" "microsoftpro"
  Option       "XkbLayout" "de"
  Option       "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"

but with us keyboard it doesn't:
  Option       "XkbModel" "pc104"
  Option       "XkbLayout" "us"
  Option       "XkbVariant" "basic"


running "setxkbmap us" and/or "setxkbmap both" will stop C-A-D working.


running "xkbcomp :0 - > outfile" shows the difference:  

working (default de settings):

    key <BKSP> {
        type= "CTRL+ALT",
        symbols[Group1]= [       BackSpace, Terminate_Server ]
    };

non-working (e.g. after "setxkbmap de"):

    key <BKSP> {         [       BackSpace ] };



as a workaround I'm using the following option in xorg.conf right now which makes C-A-D work in *any* case, even after any "setxkbmap ..." : 

  Option       "XkbOptions"    "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"


but it would be nice if the xkb rules would get fixed ;-)

Comment 1 Stefan Dirsch 2010-05-08 13:36:52 UTC

> as a workaround I'm using the following option in xorg.conf right now which
> makes C-A-D work in *any* case, even after any "setxkbmap ..." : 
>
>  Option       "XkbOptions"    "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"

This is what we're now using as well (in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-keytable.conf).

> but it would be nice if the xkb rules would get fixed ;-)

In case you have a fix, please let me know. :-)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 576481 ***