[Tfug] keyboard layout

Paul Scott waterhorse at ultrasw.com
Mon Jul 27 08:41:49 MST 2009


christopher floess wrote:
> Hi, everyone. I just upgraded my ArchLinux system, and my xorg.conf
> file got wacked. I've got everything figured out, except for some
> strange behavior with my keyboard now. The problem is that for
> instance ctrl+alt+backspace does doesn't get me out of my X session,
> it gets me ÿ, and shift+backspace gets me the normally expected
> behavior of ctrl+alt+backspace. Here is the relevant section in
> xorg.conf
>
>
>  Section "InputDevice"
>        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>        Driver      "kbd"
>        Option      "CoreKeyboard"
>        Option      "XkbRules" "xorg"
> #       Option      "XkbModel" "pc104"
>        Option      "XkbModel" "thinkpad60"
>        Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
>    EndSection
>
> Anyone have any idea how to troubleshoot this?
>   

Research the DontZap option for ServerFlags

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option          "DontZap"               "yes"
EndSection



Paul Scott






More information about the tfug mailing list