How do I restart X?

[Shining Arcanine]

I know that Ctrl+Alt+Backspace is the way to restart X on Ubuntu (or used to be anyway). Is there a similar key combination on Gentoo for restarting X?

[d2_racing]

Hi, for that, you need to add this inside your /etc/X11/xorg.conf

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Section "ServerFlags"
    Option    "DontZap"    "false"
EndSection

After that, you will be able to kill your X Server with your CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE

[Shining Arcanine]

KDM will not start properly when I have that in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I had to comment it and restart xdm to get KDM to start. :/

[aCOSwt]

d2_racing inviting to do things via xorg.conf !!!
I just cannot believe that !

Well, you should now achieve this through hal policies :

Edit /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-x11-input.fdi

Within the <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keys"> subsection :

Add :

<merge key="input.xkb.options" type="string">terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp</merge>

Warning : While this is now the correct way to achieve what you want, ctrl_alt_bksp should not be seen as the correct way to stop the X server !

[rivivarius]

altgr + printscreen + k doesn't work anymore?

[costel78]

It's still works.
Don't try it unless you really want to restart X

[darkdog8157]

or...Ctrl-Alt-F1 and Ctrl-C

[d2_racing]

In fact, because hal and the backend of Xorg will change again, so why bother with some fdi file.

Maybe in 6 months or so, we will need to use devicekit or something else

[FishB8]

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/etc/init.d/xdm restart

[tabanus]

Has this changed again? Because

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Section "ServerFlags"
    Option    "DontZap"    "false"
EndSection

and

Edit /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-x11-input.fdi

Within the <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keys"> subsection :

Add :

<merge key="input.xkb.options" type="string">terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp</merge>

don't work for me. Whatever the rights and wrongs of using ctrl_alt_bkspace are, it is really useful when the display has locked up rather than hitting the reset button.

[ichbinsisyphos]

Edit /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-x11-input.fdi

Within the <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keys"> subsection :

Add :

<merge key="input.xkb.options" type="string">terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp</merge>

don't work for me. Whatever the rights and wrongs of using ctrl_alt_bkspace are, it is really useful when the display has locked up rather than hitting the reset button.

Do you have other xkb.options in that file? I use xorg.conf, but I got zapping working by putting all those options in one line, separated by commas

[tabanus]

Extract from my /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-x11-input.fdi

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<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keys">
      <!-- If we're using Linux, we use evdev by default (falling back to
           keyboard otherwise). -->
      <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">keyboard</merge>
      <merge key="input.xkb.options" type="string">terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp</merge>
      <match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name"
             string="Linux">
        <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">evdev</merge>
      </match>

I use xorg.conf as well

[dE_logics]

altgr + printscreen + k doesn't work anymore?

That's one weird combination requiring long fingers in a few setups.

[ichbinsisyphos]

KDM will not start properly when I have that in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I had to comment it and restart xdm to get KDM to start. :/

KDE requires special care: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-62 ... ml#6214351

Extract from my /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-x11-input.fdi

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<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keys">
      <!-- If we're using Linux, we use evdev by default (falling back to
           keyboard otherwise). -->
      <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">keyboard</merge>
      <merge key="input.xkb.options" type="string">terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp</merge>
      <match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name"
             string="Linux">
        <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">evdev</merge>
      </match>

I use xorg.conf as well

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-82 ... ight-.html I never used HAL for X, so I don't know. Did you remove the input sections in xorg.conf?

What kept this thing from working for me after I fixed everything else was that I had two XkbOptions-lines in there.

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...
Option          "XkbOptions"    "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
Option          "XkbOptions"    "compose:rwin"
...

no worky

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...
Option          "XkbOptions"    "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp, compose:rwin"
...

yes worky



The thread linked above also contains some links to docs.