-nounixkill appears broken in 4.3.0.1 Windows 2000
Harold L Hunt II
huntharo@msu.edu
Mon Aug 25 17:09:00 GMT 2003
Alexander,
Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, John M. Adams wrote:
>
>
>>Dear Friends,
>>
>>It seems to me that -[no]unixkill is not working with XWin 4.3.0.1.
>>-[no]winkill does work.
>
>
> Hm, quite strange.
>
> The options do work, but are superseeded by the device independent
> layers.
>
> Now there are two different places where these keys are handled.
> In the xwin-specific code where we filter the keypress and terminate
> xwin if unixkill is set and inside the dix layer which now handles
> ctrl-alt-backspace internally (without displaying the dialogbox).
>
Do you know when they changed this? I never noticed any news about it.
> you can temporarily disable it with
>
> xmodmap "keycode 22 = BackSpace"
>
> and enable it with
>
> xmodmap "keycode 22 = BackSpace Terminate_Server"
>
Are we going to need to rework the way that nounixkill works? Or maybe
#ifdef out the handling in the dix layer?
Harold
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