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		zokier on Jan 19, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Every Linux screen locker bypassed with a keypress How did this happen? I mean, I understand the debug key combinations, but how did they get mapped to actual keys? The commit says To use these, you need to modify your XKB maps.

sirclueless on Jan 20, 2012 [–]

The problem is that some versions of linux ship with those modifications in their default keyboard maps. For example, ArchLinux had them until recently in their xkeyboard-config package. http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2012-Jan...

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