Comments on: How to Restore Ctrl + Alt + BackSpace In Ubuntu Jaunty

By: Cagdas

Cagdas — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:03:35 +0000

You can use this combination to restart X as well

right alt + printscreen +k

By: Tom King

Tom King — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:20:28 +0000

n00bs cant keep their hands of of ctrl-alt-backspace and we have to suffer.. great upgrade people!

By: Tom King

Tom King — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:20:00 +0000

n00bs cant keep their hands of of ctrl-alt-backspace and we have to suffer.. great upgrade people!

By: Robert Boki Okadar

Robert Boki Okadar — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:43:11 +0000

I agree with Eruaran, this caused more annoyance then good to me. Also, dontzap isn’t working with 9.10 anymore, do it with System->Preferences->Keyboard, choose tab Layout, press button Layout Options… and then activate checkbox on Choose Keyboard Sequence to kill the X server (or something like that). This works for Gnome, don’t know for KDE since I don’t use KDE.

By: Robert Boki Okadar

Robert Boki Okadar — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:43:00 +0000

By: Mike Ekoka

Mike Ekoka — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:11:12 +0000

Boohoo, “Screwbuntu” the great conspiracy to bring down linux strikes again! ctrl-atl-backspace not working, they want to force me to alt-sysrq-k, omg what an inconvenience, please let me die now. Seriously, there are lives to be had by some people… Wow, I am as much a loser for typing this.

Thanks to whoever posted the links and tips that allowed me to find the answer to this incredibly hard puzzle in under 2 min.

By: Mike Ekoka

Mike Ekoka — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:11:00 +0000

Thanks to whoever posted the links and tips that allowed me to find the answer to this incredibly hard puzzle in under 2 min.

By: Re-enable the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace kill switch in Ubuntu | Tech Spikes

Re-enable the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace kill switch in Ubuntu | Tech Spikes — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:47:11 +0000

[...] was easily fixed by editing the DontZap option in Xorg.conf or by using a little program to change it for you. [...]

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:41:08 +0000

A very informative article! thx guys.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:41:00 +0000

A very informative article! thx guys.

By: Yaro

Yaro — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:29:17 +0000

alt+sysrq+k is a KERNEL key combo that sends SIGKILL to all active processes on the system. It is a Very Bad Combo to use except in dire emergencies. Sure, it’ll toast X… but it’ll toast just about everything but Init, too.

By: Yaro

Yaro — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:29:00 +0000

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:25:13 +0000

So what’s wrong with alt+sysrq+k? It works just fine for me. Why is ctrl+alt+bkspc so important when it doesn’t work if the X server totally freezes, whereas alt+sysrq+k does because it’s a kernel command?

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:25:00 +0000

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:29:01 +0000

It irritates me that the justification for a change to such a basic feature is, in fact, no justification at all. They state that “a number of users have complained about accidentally restarting their X-Server”, how many? 5? 10? 100? Whats the ratio of people who accidently reset X to the people who never accidently reset X?

It seems that the change has inconvenienced the many at the behest of a few.

Looking at the page here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/DontZap it appears that the Accessibility features may be the root cause of the problem, and that perhaps, just perhaps, the decision to enable these features should done at install time. A simple question, perhaps accompanied by the wheel-chair logo, asking if this PC is going to be used by persons who have accessibility issues. If the answer is yes then enable the “hold-shift-key-for-8-seconds-to-enable-sticky-keys” feature, otherwise leave well-enough alone.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:29:00 +0000

It seems that the change has inconvenienced the many at the behest of a few.

By: Ruben

Ruben — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:21:55 +0000

Jim,

If I have to follow all documented changes within the Linux domain on every change, I won’t have enough time to develop our business, so I have to choose.
Do you realize how many changes are happening? Especially the last 3 years. Even the pro’s don’t read all changes. Speaking for myself, I give priority to servers and infrastructures.

It doesn’t really matter why I think about Ubuntu or this change. It matters what the best could be for the majority of the new Linux users. And if this is one of those, I’ll accept it. Even when I’m not pleased with it.

By: Ruben

Ruben — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:21:00 +0000

Jim,

By: Ruben

Ruben — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:21:00 +0000

Jim,

By: Yaro

Yaro — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:19:32 +0000

It wasn’t Canonical that removed it. It was an upstream decision.

The enabling of Don’t Zap by default is one of those idiot Linux decisions one can’t comprehend, like Pulse Audio, Mono, or “ZOMG MAKE LUNIX MOAR LIEK WINDOZE LOL!” Ubuntu is guilty of enabling most of these. (Not the Don’t Zap, though they could easily enable it by default.)