[mythtv-users] CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE

[Stephen Worthington]

On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 22:45:16 -0800, you wrote:

>I upgraded from Mythbuntu8 to mythbuntu18. X just froze and we used to use
>CTRL-ALT-BS but I know it has been removed.
>
>I have been Googling this and found that this was replaced by
>AysRq-rightAlt-K but that doesn't work. Then I found a nice gui checkbox
>that restored it but that isn't there.  I found several different files I
>could create, all different, and the instructions below that look like they
>might work but I don't want to blow up the system so can someone tell me if
>this is correct for Mythbuntu 18? (I modified it slightly to use nano).
>Basically I found almost a dozen ways to enable this in xfce but they were
>all different.  In the past very bad things happened when I just followed
>online instructions.  That is why I am asking for help
>
>Thanks,
>
>Allen
>
>Enable the key combination Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
>
>   1.
>
>   Open the Terminal and run sudo nano /etc/default/keyboard
>   2.
>
>   Find the line:
>   XKBOPTIONS=""
>   3.
>
>   Replace it with:
>   XKBOPTIONS="terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
>   4.
>
>   Save the modified file and close it.
>   5.
>
>   Reboot your computer to take affect.

If you are using lightdm (as I do with Xubuntu 18), then log in from a
terminal (Alt-F1) or ssh and do "sudo systemctl restart lightdm" to
restart X.  That works pretty well for me, so I did not investigate
any further the various keystroke options.