CTRL+ALT+DEL

Forum: X and Fluxbox
Topic: CTRL+ALT+DEL
started by: JPierri

Posted by JPierri on May 27 2005,19:50

I am using RDesktop to connect to Windows 2003 servers.
When a user does the three finger salute, Xvesa acts as it has received CTRL-ALT-Backspace, killing the session together with Xvesa.

Does anybody know how to disable this CTRL-ALT-DEL behaviour on Xvesa?

Posted by Rapidweather on May 28 2005,00:20

It's somewhere in the /etc/init.d/knoppixautoconfig file, I believe, last time I looked.
If it's not there, there are other files in /etc/init.d that you might look at.
The file's code would probably have to be changed, and that would require a remaster of the distro to put it in. They have the Ctrl-Alt-Delete thing because linux can get fouled up sometimes, especially on marginal hardware (older computers), and we need a way out, other than unplugging the box. The other one is Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, that gets you out of the X server.
I spend a lot of time testing all the various LiveCD distro's, and with some,
those key combinations are necessary as some of the programs can lock up the machine. DSL is one of the best-tested, however, but all linux distro's need those two key-combos, even DSL.
In my remaster of Knoppix, I had to hunt down all the programs that could cause serious problems, and remove them. Some of my beta testers went right to those bad programs and crashed their boxes in a few minutes! Couldn't have that!

Posted by cbagger01 on May 28 2005,04:51

Try

/etc/inittab

The line is:

ca::ctrlaltdel:/etc/init 0

Posted by JPierri on May 28 2005,15:33

Quote (cbagger01 @ May 28 2005,00:51)

Try

/etc/inittab

The line is:

ca::ctrlaltdel:/etc/init 0

I have already disabled the "ctrlaltdel" line in /etc/inittab, so the box is not rebooting with CTRL+ALT+DEL anymore.

The Xvesa, however, still treat CTRL+ALT+DEL as CTRL+ALT+Backspace, i.e, when you strike CTRL+ALT+DEL you kill Xvesa, geting back to a console shell.

What I need is Xvesa not be killed when someone strike CTRL+ALT+DEL, trying to sent it through a RDP session to the Windows server on the other side.

Posted by 2pac_Shaker on May 31 2005,13:47

I had the same problem with Ctrl+Alt+Del in XVesa, and was unable to fix it until I upgraded the install to XFree86

the details are here, I hope it helps
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=5794 >

Posted by JPierri on June 01 2005,00:43

Quote (2pac_Shaker @ May 31 2005,09:47)

I had the same problem with Ctrl+Alt+Del in XVesa, and was unable to fix it until I upgraded the install to XFree86

I replaced Xvesa by XFree86 and now it is working fine.

Thank you 2pac_Shaker

Posted by henrik.carlsen on June 23 2005,11:22

How do I enlarge the screen, so that rdesktop is in full screen?

Posted by 2pac_Shaker on July 08 2005,15:56

Open a terminal and type rdesktop -f (machinename) for full screen.
rdesktop --help will also return you the full list of switches.