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_com mand_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

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On 04/01/12 21:06, R Kimber wrote:

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



What's the real problem you're trying to solve here? i.e. why do you
want to be able to kill the desktop with a keyboard shortcut?


Al.


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On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:33:24 +0000
Alan Pope <alan@canonical.com> wrote:

> On 04/01/12 21:06, R Kimber wrote:
> > 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
> >
>
> What's the real problem you're trying to solve here? i.e. why do you
> want to be able to kill the desktop with a keyboard shortcut?
>
> Al.
>
It sounds as if the problem is that a basic and well-used option has
been removed and the OP wants it back.

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On 06/01/12 12:42, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:

It sounds as if the problem is that a basic and well-used option has
been removed and the OP wants it back.



The question was to discover why someone feels the need to kill their
desktop. As far as I can see it's only 'well used' by people who have
some other issue with their system. Perhaps a video driver that goes
haywire, or an app that misbehaves when setting resolution.


Perhaps there's an underlying nut-sized problem which could do with
addressing rather than using the hammer to crack it.


Al.


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On 01/06/2012 07:20 AM, Alan Pope wrote:

On 06/01/12 12:42, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:

It sounds as if the problem is that a basic and well-used option has
been removed and the OP wants it back.



The question was to discover why someone feels the need to kill their
desktop. As far as I can see it's only 'well used' by people who have
some other issue with their system. Perhaps a video driver that goes
haywire, or an app that misbehaves when setting resolution.

Perhaps there's an underlying nut-sized problem which could do with
addressing rather than using the hammer to crack it.

Al.


Or maybe they need a quick way to hide what their doing when "the boss"
comes around. *<]D


Many years ago some games had a "hide" set of keystrokes that would
pause the game and instantly change the screen to look like a
spreadsheet, or some other business like screen, so the boss wouldn't
know you were playing games on company time.



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On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:33:24 +0000
Alan Pope wrote:

> On 04/01/12 21:06, R Kimber wrote:
> > 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
> >
>
> What's the real problem you're trying to solve here? i.e. why do you
> want to be able to kill the desktop with a keyboard shortcut?

With 11.10 the machine is freezing quite a lot more than than previously.
I suspect that this might be a video issue and, as a start in looking for
the cause, I thought it would be useful to see if re-starting the Xserver
in that manner had any effect, assuming the keyboard wasn't also locked.

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On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 06:42:38 -0600
Cybe R. Wizard wrote:

> It sounds as if the problem is that a basic and well-used option has
> been removed and the OP wants it back.

Well, indeed.

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On 01/06/2012 08:20 AM, Alan Pope wrote:

On 06/01/12 12:42, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:

It sounds as if the problem is that a basic and well-used option has
been removed and the OP wants it back.



The question was to discover why someone feels the need to kill their
desktop. As far as I can see it's only 'well used' by people who have
some other issue with their system. Perhaps a video driver that goes
haywire, or an app that misbehaves when setting resolution.

Perhaps there's an underlying nut-sized problem which could do with
addressing rather than using the hammer to crack it.

Al.
True, but what about the possibility that he just wants it available,
just in case?


Anyway, here's how I got it back.
Hit the Windows key
Type layout
Click on Keyboard layout
Go to the Layouts tab, click on Options.
In about the middle is the option for Key Sequence to Kill the X server.


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I would like to disable ctrl-2 Option. What would you call that
function? My hands move slow and I hit that rather than shift-@ for my
e-mall address.

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I was running to the mail box and a turtle pass me.

On 01/06/2012 12:27 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:

On 01/06/2012 08:20 AM, Alan Pope wrote:

On 06/01/12 12:42, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:

It sounds as if the problem is that a basic and well-used option has
been removed and the OP wants it back.



The question was to discover why someone feels the need to kill their
desktop. As far as I can see it's only 'well used' by people who have
some other issue with their system. Perhaps a video driver that goes
haywire, or an app that misbehaves when setting resolution.

Perhaps there's an underlying nut-sized problem which could do with
addressing rather than using the hammer to crack it.

Al.
True, but what about the possibility that he just wants it
available, just in case?


Anyway, here's how I got it back.
Hit the Windows key
Type layout
Click on Keyboard layout
Go to the Layouts tab, click on Options.
In about the middle is the option for Key Sequence to Kill the X server.





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On 1/6/2012 8:20 AM, Alan Pope wrote:

On 06/01/12 12:42, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:

It sounds as if the problem is that a basic and well-used option has
been removed and the OP wants it back.



The question was to discover why someone feels the need to kill their
desktop. As far as I can see it's only 'well used' by people who have
some other issue with their system. Perhaps a video driver that goes
haywire, or an app that misbehaves when setting resolution.


Perhaps there's an underlying nut-sized problem which could do with
addressing rather than using the hammer to crack it.


Al.


When something hangs the machine, you have two options: shut down the
machine from the keyboard, hopefully a graceful shutdown, or push the
button on the front of the computer case. (That latter is the hammer,
not the k/b input.) If you can get to the terminal, you can do
shutdown -h now
but if you can't get there, then ctrl-alt-bs should work. If Ubuntu
has removed that, they have screwed up yet again!
_After_ you have gotten out of the hang, _then_ you can try and find the
problem and fix it. Not when the machine is hung.


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