Bug#590534: ctrl+alt+bksp does not work when X is started by gdm3, and does work when X is started by startx

Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe Mario.Holbe at TU-Ilmenau.DE
Wed Oct 20 22:20:15 UTC 2010


Hello,

just a little more information on this issue...

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:16:45PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I enabled ctrl+alt+bksp per a recent email from Andrei Popescu on debian-
> user at lists.debian.org. I tested the change. I could not kill X, even after
> rebooting. I used startx to start X. The command worked correctly for startx

This problem does still exist in 2.30.5-4 and turns up whenever gdm3
starts any session- or window-manager that does not fiddle around with
the xkbmap itself - i.e. virtually every session- and window-manager
except Gnome.

gdm3 removes the terminate(ctrl_alt_bksp) symbol from the xkbmap but
does not restore it when firing up user's X session.

Here is the output of `setxkbmap -print' under Fvwm started via startx
or via kdm:
xkb_keymap {
	xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(qwertz)"	};
	xkb_types     { include "complete"	};
	xkb_compat    { include "complete"	};
	xkb_symbols   { include "pc+de(nodeadkeys)+inet(evdev)+terminate(ctrl_alt_bksp)"	};
	xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc105)"	};
};

Here is the output of `setxkbmap -print' under Fvwm started via gdm3:
xkb_keymap {
	xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(qwertz)"	};
	xkb_types     { include "complete"	};
	xkb_compat    { include "complete"	};
	xkb_symbols   { include "pc+de(nodeadkeys)+inet(evdev)"	};
	xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc105)"	};
};


regards
   Mario
-- 
A promise to a woman is just a lie that hasn't happened yet.
                                               -- Mr. Floppy
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