Comments on: Ubuntu: No more Ctrl-Alt-Backspace?

By: Ferengee

Ferengee — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:15:53 +0000

Lets just hope we won’t accidentaly press combo’s like:
[alt][sysrq][b] or any other sysrq
[alt][f4] meaning to switch to desktop four but instead have your focussed application closed
or the power button

I must admit that I invested some time to change the [ctr] [alt] [del] combo to [del][end][pagedown] so I can hit in on windows with just one fist

By: Björn

Björn — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:56:25 +0000

Found this post because I also had the same problem with Jaunty. And I’ve never in my entire life accidentally pressed that key combo. Changing defaults is annoying.

By: Niek Bergman

Niek Bergman — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:16:15 +0000

@jon: This blog post is 5 months old. To my knowledge, the command “dontzap -d” (and the dontzap package) did not exist at that point. Which would leave editing configuration files to make this change as only option.

By: jon

jon — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:37:02 +0000

Wow, what a dumb post. First of all this has nothing to do with Ubuntu. This was implemented by the Xorg team, and exists on every Linux distro using the latest xorg server.

Secondly, if using: “sudo dontzap -d” is too difficult, then you should buy a Mac.

I disagree with the blocking of it by default, but come on, a GUI necessary for a three-word command?

By: Sergey

Sergey — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:56:44 +0000

Another way to enable this feature again is to run “dontzap –disable” (plus one more string to install dontzap package). So it’s even 2 strings and no configs at all

By: Cody

Cody — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:53:19 +0000

If you’re someone who wants this functionality and knows it exists, you shouldn’t be that shy of adding 3 lines to a text file. Anyways, if you didn’t know it existed, you’re more likely to accidentally hit it then wonder what happened. I’ve confused several people who are new to linux just by switching between virtual terminals.

#Add to xorg.conf
Section “ServerFlags”
Option “DontZap” “false”
EndSection

By: kahrn

kahrn — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:18:17 +0000

I’m definitely against the removal of the ctrl-del-backspace in Ubuntu. People might point out that it’s supposed to be the easiest distro to use — I disagree. It’s supposed to offer a medium between easy to use and power.

How many people really want it removed? Infact… how can you accidentally hit ctrl-alt-backspace? Anyways, regardless they should at least have a tickbox somewhere that makes it easy to disable/enable.

I fail to see how this is a step forward in ease of use.

By: Niek Bergman

Niek Bergman — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:01:38 +0000

@danopia: Apparently one is already being made

@CodeBlock: ‘Hard’ is relative

By: CodeBlock

CodeBlock — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:07:35 +0000

Editing one line in a file is ‘hard’? :S

By: danopia

danopia — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:02:02 +0000

That change is really trivial. You want me to make a GUI app that is 15 pixels high and has a single checkbox?

And I try using SSH from another PC to kill X if it ever really acts up