I was just looking for an existing bug report to report this exact problem. I appended my comment to https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/49594. Summary: after pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace I still see bonobo-activation-server, gconfd, a few panel applets, esd and evolution-data-server processes running.
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