Enabling Ctrl-Alt-Backspace in 9.10

[pkaplan1]

On Sunday 15 November 2009 23:55 Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
> On Sunday 15 November 2009 08:32:33 pm Derek Broughton wrote:
> > Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> > > Am Sonntag 15 November 2009 schrieb Nigel Ridley:
> > >> OK, this is good for a one_user_system but I have another laptop
> > >>  that 4 people have accounts on. How do I edit X-org.conf to
> > >>  enable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace?
> > >
> > > Usually by adding the following lines to xorg.conf, but they don't
> > > seem to be effective:
> > >
> > > Section "ServerFlags"
> > >         Option  "DontZap"       "false"
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > IOW, even though this is the way to do it according to "man Xorg", it
> > > doesn't work here...
> >
> > My understanding was that Karmic no longer supports this.
> 
> Look up this page:
> " http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-enabledisable-ctrlaltbackspace-in-
> ubuntu-9-10-karmic.html "
> 
I found that adding the above lines in xorg.conf allows the key combo 
rightalt+printscreen+k to kill X, at least on intel graphics.

To enable ctrl+alt+backspace for all users try creating a file called 
/etc/hal/fdi/policy/10_keymap.fdi and add the following line (no quotes):
"<merge key="input.xkb.options" type="string">terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp</merge>"

Can't recall where I found this.
Paul