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#1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 06:15 AM

Hi all,
I run a fairly up-to-date version of gentoo with xfce4 as the desktop. One
thing that bugs me is that xfce4 doesn't react to 'ctrl-alt-backspace' to
shutdown the X-Server. I run on a SuSE a self-compiled version of xfce4
which does accept 'ctrl-alt-backspace' for shutting down the X-server.

In the 'settings' of xfce4 I couldn't find anything that I could set to
adjust the behaviour.

Does anybody know where to set this option?

Thanks and best regards,
Klaus

#2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 06:15 AM

I run xfce4 on gentoo and "ctrl-alt-backspace" works just fine for me...

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Klaus Dahlke wrote:

> Hi all,
> I run a fairly up-to-date version of gentoo with xfce4 as the desktop. One
> thing that bugs me is that xfce4 doesn't react to 'ctrl-alt-backspace' to
> shutdown the X-Server. I run on a SuSE a self-compiled version of xfce4
> which does accept 'ctrl-alt-backspace' for shutting down the X-server.
>
> In the 'settings' of xfce4 I couldn't find anything that I could set to
> adjust the behaviour.
>
> Does anybody know where to set this option?
>
> Thanks and best regards,
> Klaus
>

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#3 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 06:16 AM

So anyway, it was like, 21:41 CET Jan 19 2004, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
Klaus Dahlke was all like, "Dude,

> I run a fairly up-to-date version of gentoo with xfce4 as the
> desktop. One thing that bugs me is that xfce4 doesn't react
> to 'ctrl-alt-backspace' to shutdown the X-Server. I run on
> a SuSE a self-compiled version of xfce4 which does accept
> 'ctrl-alt-backspace' for shutting down the X-server.
>
> In the 'settings' of xfce4 I couldn't find anything that I could set
> to adjust the behaviour.
>
> Does anybody know where to set this option?

Nothing to do with xfce.

-----8<-----
johan@panther johan $ grep Zap /etc/X11/XF86Config
Option "DontZap"
----->8-----

hth.

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#4 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 06:17 AM

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:15:00 +0100, Johan Lindquist wrote:

> So anyway, it was like, 21:41 CET Jan 19 2004, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
> Klaus Dahlke was all like, "Dude,
>
>> I run a fairly up-to-date version of gentoo with xfce4 as the desktop.
>> One thing that bugs me is that xfce4 doesn't react to
>> 'ctrl-alt-backspace' to shutdown the X-Server. I run on a SuSE a
>> self-compiled version of xfce4 which does accept 'ctrl-alt-backspace'
>> for shutting down the X-server.
>>
>> In the 'settings' of xfce4 I couldn't find anything that I could set to
>> adjust the behaviour.
>>
>> Does anybody know where to set this option?
>
> Nothing to do with xfce.
>
> -----8<-----
> johan@panther johan $ grep Zap /etc/X11/XF86Config
> Option "DontZap"
> ----->8-----
>
> hth.

Thanks for the hint, but unfortunately, I don't have that line in my
/etc/X11/XF86Config file at all. Could it be a difference in keyboard
layout? But Backspace works as backspace in xterm.

Anyhow, thanks for the help.

Best regards,
Klaus

#5 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 06:18 AM

So anyway, it was like, 22:18 CET Jan 22 2004, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
Klaus Dahlke was all like, "Dude,
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:15:00 +0100, Johan Lindquist wrote:

>> Option "DontZap"
>
> Thanks for the hint, but unfortunately, I don't have that line in
> my /etc/X11/XF86Config file at all. Could it be a difference in
> keyboard layout? But Backspace works as backspace in xterm.

Got me then.. sorry. Unless you have another XF86Config (XF86Config-4)
or some such, for example), that is. It's the only way I know to
control that feature.

Might be interesting to verify that xfce really isn't messing with you
by picking another window manager temporarily and experimenting.

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