On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: >> Other obvious changes are that ctrl-alt-bkspc no longer shuts X down >> And the desktop seems to take a good bit longer to initially load. > > The makers of Xorg have disabled ctrl-alt-backspace by default in > recent versions (since ~6 months ago or so?). Add this to your > .xinitrc (or whatever) to get this behavior back: > setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
Here's a page that has some other methods of re-enabling this hotkey combination: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-enabledisable-ctrlaltbackspace-in-ubuntu-9-10-karmic.html
