[mythtv-users] CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE

[Greg Oliver]

On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 10:11 AM Allen Edwards <allen.p.edwards at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
While in an X or Wayland environment, pressing CTRL+ALF+Fn4 should get you
out of X and into a console in terminal Fx.  I am unsure since BACKSPACE
does not work if it will though - still worth a try.

-Greg
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