[gobolinux-users] xorg 7.3 macbook freeze

Isaac Dupree isaacdupree at charter.net
Fri Oct 12 02:29:58 NZDT 2007


Lucas C. Villa Real wrote:
> On 10/10/07, Isaac Dupree <isaacdupree at charter.net> wrote:
>> Jonas Karlsson wrote:
>>> Having experimented some more with Xorg I can more or less confirm that
>>> it's a DBus issue. It looks like the issue is gone with DBus 1.1.x, so if
>>> you're running DBus 1.0.x or earlier you can try to upgrade it and see if
>>> that solves it, without having to recompile Xorg.
>> okay, now (with dbus 1.1) running Xorg with twm works ... except that
>> Ctrl-Alt-Del, which should exit X, merely freezes the cursor/display
>> (and possibly the system).  XMonad keybinding ctrl-shift-return isn't
>> working for me (I suppose I could try recompiling xmonad with new xorg
>> symlinked...).  Nevertheless I can move the mouse cursor, when using
>> xmonad as window manager, until I hit ctrl-alt-del, which freezes again.
> 
> Didn't you intend to use ctrl+alt+backspace instead?

heck, I don't know what these keys are called - I use a Mac keyboard! 
Whatever it is, it's the key combination that tells X to quit now.

Isaac



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