Enabling Ctrl-Alt-Backspace in 9.10

Derek Broughton derek at pointerstop.ca
Mon Nov 16 17:38:18 UTC 2009


Howard Coles Jr. wrote:

> On Monday 16 November 2009 07:18:40 am Derek Broughton wrote:
>> 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 "
>> 
>> Isn't that what I just said?  dontzap doesn't work anymore.
>> 
> 
> Not sure what you mean, 

I mean: I said I believed "dontzap" was no longer supported, and that page 
_says_ "dontzap" is no longer supported.  So what does your response have to 
offer me?  If you really meant to respond to the OP, respond to the OP.
-- 
derek





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