Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to restart X in Karmic

November 7th, 2009 | Tags: , ,

In a previous post I described to how to enable the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace key combination to restart the X server. However, those steps were applicable to Ubuntu 9.04 only and have no effect in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala). The necessary changes to enable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to restart X in Karmic are below.

  1. Open Preferences > Keyboard and select the Layouts tab.
  2. Click the Layout Options… button.
  3. In the dialog window expand the “Key sequence to kill X server” entry and select the checkbox.
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  1. obix
    January 9th, 2010 at 17:32
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    thanks