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Tech Tip: Restore Ctrl-Alt-Backspace in Ubuntu

Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community  Tue, 11/03/2009 - 10:58

In the last release of Ubuntu (9.04) the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace key sequence normally used to kill the X server was disabled by default.

Apparently many people like to kill their X server this way so a workaround "dontzap" package was used to enable it.

With the latest Ubuntu release (9.10, aka Karmic) it's even simpler to enable it.

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