On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 08:37:44PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 06 Oct 2017 at 21:19:28 +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > > for that matter, even "ctrl+alt+backspace" doesn't work to shutdown the > > x server. :( > > This disappeared from xorg many, many years ago. But it can be re-enabled > in Debian. An XKBOPTIONS options is what you look for if you really want > it.
I edit /etc/default/keyboard to read as follows (also, lv3 level 3 (& 4) shift rocks!): XKBMODEL="microsoft4000" XKBLAYOUT="libsh" XKBVARIANT="basic" XKBOPTIONS="lv3:lwin_switch,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" BACKSPACE="guess"