On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 00:42 -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > To all: > > Installed f12 without any problems. > > Discovered that crtl-alt-backspace was disabled in f12 and how I could > edit my xorg.conf to restore that feature. > > Searched Fedora f12 web pages and they told me to install > system-config-display to create an xorg.conf that matched the default > that the opSys was using. Worked great and, to use the cliché, "groovy" > > Reboot system and it immediately hangs after that cute little Fedora > icon finishes to say that it booted. Just hangs and hangs. To use the > cliché again, "not groovy". > > I figure I have no choice but to reinstall (what's a few hours between > friends (grumble)) ... but would like to know the proper (which may be > not documented) way to restore "crtl-alt-backspace" to kick the X. > > I have three computer on a KVM and I often need to kick one of them if > it boots up and the KVM isn't directed at it cause its on one of the > others.. I've never understood why X has to actually connect to the > monitor to be correct, but X is pretty near a black box as far as I am > concerned (sigh). ---- put into /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "ServerFlags" Option "DontZap" "false" EndSection then you can kill X with <Control><Alt><Backspace> as before (after you restart X of course. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines