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[SOLVED] How to enable ctrl+alt+backspace in Xorg?
« on: October 18, 2009, 08:45:22 PM »
Is it possible to enable ctrl+alt+backspace in Xorg? If so, what are the steps?

I have nosed around a bit and it seems a utility called dontzap is needed.
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Re: How to enable ctrl+alt+backspace in Xorg?
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2009, 09:21:48 PM »
Further nosing reveals that adding to /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option          "DontZap" "false"
EndSection

I'll try this tonight and report back.

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Re: How to enable ctrl+alt+backspace in Xorg?
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2009, 04:59:05 AM »
Right it worked.  ;D

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Re: [SOLVED] How to enable ctrl+alt+backspace in Xorg?
« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2009, 01:13:31 PM »
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Re: [SOLVED] How to enable ctrl+alt+backspace in Xorg?
« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2009, 05:58:05 PM »
It may not work in the next version of Xorg... seems the over-zealous people at Xorg disabled even that if I understand online discussions correctly.