[NBLUG/talk] Blue Screen of... SuSE: SOLUTION

[E Frank Ball]

On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 08:24:16AM -0800, Dave Sisley wrote:
} Since my problem is that I occassionally hit the key combination
} shift+backspace, I needed to disable that particular combination.
} 
} I did some googling and found 2 suggestions.  The first was to go to
} the SuSE Control Centre and edit the keyboard shortcuts.


Weird that SuSE used <shift><backspace> when every other linux box I've
seen used <ctrl><alt><backspace> (Including SuSE 5 and 6). I use these
keys to stop X routinely.

The /etc/X11/xkb/REAME* files on RedHat9 have a lot of good stuff.

The file in Redhat that sets <cntl><alt><backspace> to restart X seems
to be: /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/us_group3:

    key <BKSP> {
        type="CTRL+ALT",
        symbols[Group3]= [ BackSpace,   Terminate_Server ]
    };


Look in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/us, /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/us_group2 and
/etc/X11/xkb/symbols/us_group3 and see what you can find.

RedHat 7.2 and Debian Stable seem to be more obscure.  I couldn't figure
out how it was configured.

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at efball.com