How to implement alternate zap key idea

Harald Braumann harry at unheit.net
Fri Oct 3 11:00:30 PDT 2008


On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:22:47 +0100
"David Gerard" <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/9/23 Jaymz Julian <jaymz at artificial-stupidity.net>:
> 
> FWIW, I tend to kill X not with ctrl-alt-bs but by going to a non-X
> console with ctrl-alt-F2 and sudo pkill Xorg. I suppose that's a bit
> Linux/FreeBSD-specific, of course. sshing in from another machine also
> works well.

Don't forget to define an ACPI action, that does "chvt 1" when you
press Fn-F1 (or whatever) for the times, when xscreensaver's password
window and qt-pinentry fight for the keyboard grab and the keyboard is
stuck.

Cheers,
harry
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