#3219 closed defect (duplicate)
Control+Alt+Backspace not working in Xorg
| Reported by: | Jeff Davis | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | BOOK | Version: | SVN |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
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Description
The instructions on the X Window System Components page, under Configuring the X Window System indicate that you can test the system and then exit with the Control+Alt+Backspace sequence. I was mildly disconcerted when that keystroke sequence didn't work after my build, because it has worked on previous builds.
It turns out that Control+Alt+Backspace removed from the keymap by default in Xorg 7.5. The release notes indicate:
The Xorg server has previously allowed users to exit the server by pressing the keys Control + Alt + Backspace. While this function is still enabled by default in this release, the keymap data usually used with Xorg, from the xkeyboard-config project, has been modified to not map that sequence by default, in order to reduce the chance that inexperienced users will accidentally destroy their work.
Users who wish to have this functionality available by default may enable it via the XKB configuration option “terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp”. For instance, the setxkbmap command can be used to enable this by running:
setxkbmap -option "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
This is a duplicate of Ticket #3077. Closing.