Enabling Ctrl-Alt-Backspace in 9.10

[Nigel Ridley]

pkaplan1 wrote:
> 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>"

Is it in /etc or /usr/share?:

You can add the following line in /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-x11-input.fdi (inside 
the <match key=”info.capabilities” contains=”input.keys”> section):

     <merge key="input.xkb.options" type="string">terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp</merge>

Taken from:
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-enabledisable-ctrlaltbackspace-in-ubuntu-9-10-karmic.html

> 
> Can't recall where I found this.
> Paul
> 

Nigel