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authorjbranso@dismail.de <jbranso@dismail.de>2023-09-11 14:38:20 -0400
committerSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2023-09-11 20:41:29 +0200
commitcaf5e58e44b2e9210c306a526b79e4fc08d7387d (patch)
tree55368de27d40c54b18133cc8a36760a8eeb6411b
parentb63c840634f9806470a47f85c4f8db4b2a0fa1e2 (diff)
faq/x-exit.mdwn: added an example xorg-ctrl-alt-backspace.conf file that shows users how to configure to kill X via C-M-DEL.
Message-Id: <20230911183820.1532-1-jbranso@dismail.de>
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@@ -16,3 +16,12 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
This is due to a missing implementation of a corner case of Posix signaling for non-root processes to root processes.
One can however use the usual ctrl-alt-backspace shortcut to kill the X server.
+
+You just need to configure it via the file:
+`/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/xorg-ctrl-backspace.conf`
+
+ Section "InputDevice"
+ Identifier "Generic KeyBoard"
+ Driver "kbd"
+ Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
+ EndSection