[PATCH] xfree86: Document mapping terminate to Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. (#25083)

Jesse Adkins jesserayadkins at gmail.com
Tue Aug 24 14:32:51 PDT 2010


Explain how to map terminate in xorg.conf, and with setxkbmap.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Adkins <jesserayadkins at gmail.com>
---
 hw/xfree86/doc/man/Xorg.man.pre |   15 +++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/xfree86/doc/man/Xorg.man.pre b/hw/xfree86/doc/man/Xorg.man.pre
index 46d0e44..a41de75 100644
--- a/hw/xfree86/doc/man/Xorg.man.pre
+++ b/hw/xfree86/doc/man/Xorg.man.pre
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 .\" $XdotOrg: xserver/xorg/hw/xfree86/doc/man/Xorg.man.pre,v 1.3 2005/07/04 18:41:01 ajax Exp $
+.\" shorthand for double quote that works everywhere.
+.ds q \N'34'
 .TH __xservername__ __appmansuffix__ __vendorversion__
 .SH NAME
 __xservername__ - X11R7 X server
@@ -440,6 +442,19 @@ Immediately kills the server -- no questions asked. It can be disabled by
 setting the
 .B DontZap
 __xconfigfile__(__filemansuffix__) file option to a TRUE value.
+.PP
+.RS 8
+Newer versions of __xservername__ do not come with
+.B Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
+mapped in XKB. You can specify this in keyboard section of the
+__xconfigfile__(__filemansuffix__) file with the line
+.PP
+.BI "Option " "\*qXKBOption\*q \*qterminate:ctrl_alt_bksp\*q"
+.PP
+You can also set this mapping at runtime, with the command
+.PP
+.BI "setxkbmap -option " "\*qterminate:ctrl_alt_bksp\*q"
+.RE
 .TP 8
 .B Ctrl+Alt+Keypad-Plus
 Change video mode to next one specified in the configuration file.
-- 
1.7.0.4



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