Xorg 1.6 Upgrade Guide

1.  Upgrade procedure

When upgrading xorg-server, you will likely have to upgrade libxcb as well. This library's upgrade is not as simple as it may seem. Therefor, libxcb has its own upgrade guide.

2.  Miscellaneous Options

Xorg now ignores Ctrl-Alt-Backspace by default. If you want to reenable zapping, there are a couple options :

• If you run Gnome, go the Keyboard preferences applet in the System -> Preferences menu. In the "Layout" tab, click on "Layout Options" and enable "Key sequence to kill the X server". This setting will be stored in GConf.
• If you want to enable zapping without using any graphical utility, just run setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp

If you want to make the change permanent, regardless of your desktop environment, you have a few more options :

• If you use HAL to manage input devices, copy the following HAL fdi snippet into the fdi file from /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ which you use to control your keyboard. <merge key="input.xkb.options" type="string">terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp</merge> If you do not have any custom keyboard rules, you can copy and adapt rules from /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-x11-input.fdi
• If you still use xorg.conf to manage your input devices, just add the following to your keyboard's InputDevice section : Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp".

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