Ctrl-alt-backspace

[A. Kromic]

On 04/01/12 22:06, R Kimber wrote:
> I've been trying to enable ctrl-alt-backspace following the command line
> option on
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/DontZap?action=show&redirect=DontZap#Using_the_command_line
>
> /usr/bin/setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
> runs fine from the command line, but when I put it in .xinitrc to make it
> permanent, it doesn't seem to work.
> .xinitrc has -rwxrw-r-- permissions
>
> How do I get it to be permanent?  I tried looking for a setting in the menu
> system, but couldn't find one.  I'm using Xubuntu 11.10
>
> - Richard.

Since you quote the dot file (.xinitrc), I suppose it is the file in
your home directory? If so, it doesn't have any effect when X is started
by GDM because it's started as root then. You could try setting the same
thing in the system-wide config files...

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