[SOLVED] Re: How to include setxkbmap in Xorg.conf directly ?

[Aaron Lewis]

On 10:01 Sun 12 Jun     , Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> On 06/11/11 06:13 PM, Aaron Lewis wrote:
> > Hi
> > 	I put "setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" in ~/.xinitrc and do startx each time i start my machine  , 
> > 	However , when USB keyboard plugged in , keyboard options won't be set on it , i had to run that command again.
> > 
> > 	Any solutions ? Many thanks for any of your responses.
> > 	
> 
> GNOME has keyboard prefences you can set in your GNOME-session that suffice
> for many users (won't be in effect when not running gnome, or before login
> to your gnome-session) - see the "Options" button in the "Layout" menu.
> 
> For non-gnome users (*), I include the following file in the Xorg 1.10 packages
> I build as /etc/X11/xorg.conf.avail/90-zap.conf - it should work with Xorg 1.8
> & later:
> 
> # This configuration snippet enables the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace server kill key
> #
> # To use it, link or copy into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
> #
> # Note that only the last XkbOptions setting seen for a device will be used,
> # so to use multiple options, copy this file and add options into the Option
> # string, such as "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,ctrl:swapcaps"
> 
> Section "InputClass"
>     Identifier "keyboard zap by default"
>     MatchIsKeyboard "on"
> 
>     Option "XKbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
> EndSection
> 
> 
> (*) Okay, mainly for me when I'm doing debugging using throw-away test accounts
> or xinit without gnome, and including it in the packages is easier than
> remembering to copy it every time I install a test system.   But I know a few
> other people use it too, so it's not purely my laziness.

Great , thanks , resolved this problem for me on Gentoo & OpenBox with
Xorg 1.9.5 installed

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