Bug 508487

Summary:	Differences in correcting the "zapping" issue for X11 and what is documented...
Product:	[Retired] Fedora Documentation	Reporter:	DuvJones <duvelle.jones>
Component:	release-notes	Assignee:	John J. McDonough <wb8rcr>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Karsten Wade <kwade>
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Description DuvJones 2009-06-27 19:16:57 UTC

Description of problem:
A rather interesting discrepancy in what is written in the release notes to correct "zaping" and how to correct the actual problem. 
Based on Release notes, to re-activate "zapping" (the <Ctrl>+<Alt>+<Backspace> command for restarting X11) a person is directed to edit their "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" file with this... 

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DontZap" "false"
EndSection

Alas, what I find out is that basically this advice does nothing. After a reboot, X11 still doesn't enable the command for the user. After a little searching on Fedora Fourms, I found this blog entry with explains quite abit on how to enable "zapping" for Fedora:

http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/controlaltbackspace-shortcut-does-not-restart-the-x-server-in-fedora-11/

If this blogger is anything to go by, the method to activate the command is a little different. So after a read... and trying it, I am quite confident in his/her method (which has been working) compared to what is written in the release notes (which sadly does nothing). 
If anything, I was wondering if that section could be changed to reflect what is working (after some testing, of course) 


DuvJones


This was found in Fedora 11 release notes section 5.11.1

Comment 1 John J. McDonough 2009-07-17 13:55:02 UTC

Corrected in rev 1.7

Comment 2 John J. McDonough 2010-01-02 00:46:53 UTC

This was fixed in fedora-release-notes-11.0.1-2 which was never pushed.  It will be pushed with fedora-release-notes-11.0.4-1