[mythtv-users] CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE

[Allen Edwards]

On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 7:41 AM Ian Cameron <mkbloke at gmail.com> wrote:

> It would appear, as far as I can see, that the information you have found
> is correct for Ubuntu like systems.  The worst that is likely to happen is
> that you try it and it doesn't work, in which case you can just edit
> /etc/default/keyboard again and put it back to how it was, i.e. with
> XKBOPTIONS="".
>
> The other xorg config option that can affect this is the DontZap option,
> which will cause it to ignore the terminate signal, but on my 16.04 LTS
> installation this does not appear to have been used, so I suspect it won't
> be in your xorg.conf file(s) either, unless you have added it yourself.
>
> Cheers, Ian
>

That is reassuring Ian, thank you.  But I sure hope someone has done this
and can tell me if it works for sure.  I have been Googling this and there
are so many opinions such as the DontZap fixes listed followed by other
ways of doing this none of which seem to be on my system.  There is one
that suggests adding setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp through the
Applications Autostart of the gui. But the poster said it should just be a
checkbox and it wasn't so I am not inclined to add it manually without
confirmation from someone here.

I got some auto-upload of some error log and then a Chrome window opened
asking me to login to an account I don't have after trying the other
suggestion this morning. Or maybe it was unrelated and a result of some
other problem. But this is the reason I really hate trying things. I have
destroyed half a day on occasion trying something I found on the web or
suggestions that are not for my exact configuration.

If I don't get a reply from someone who has enabled CTRL-Alt-Backspace with
a Mythbuntu-18 system I will try what I posted as you are suggesting.

Why they decided to delete this functionality is beyond stupid.

Allen
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