Unfortunately, there's still a need to kill the XServer from time to time.
Since upgrading to Raring ctrl+alt+backspace is disabled and I can't find this option in the keyboard settings any-more:
Is there a way to re-enable it in Raring?
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I think this answer is the closest: http://askubuntu.com/a/81394/235 though we should leave this open in case there's a GUI way, then merge it into that question. – Jorge Castro Oct 29 '13 at 17:09
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http://askubuntu.com/questions/10622/how-can-i-enable-ctrlaltbackspace?lq=1 this solution does not work with the new keyboard setting... – tibike Oct 29 '13 at 17:10
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Yeah, the command line one should still work though. – Jorge Castro Oct 29 '13 at 17:11
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1yup! setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp thanks! – tibike Oct 29 '13 at 17:14
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Ok I'll fix that one up, and we'll close this one as a dupe, thanks! – Jorge Castro Oct 29 '13 at 17:16
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1@jorge-castro There are dconf-editor instructions (includes ctrl-alt-backspace) at swap keys and added to 10622 – chaskes Oct 29 '13 at 17:32
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Good work everyone! – Jorge Castro Oct 29 '13 at 17:33
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Found the link provided by Jorge. In any case I'll leave an answer here for you to try out. – Luis Alvarado Apr 11 '14 at 15:24
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I only tested this on 13.10+, but you could do the following on the terminal type:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
This will open the keyboard configuration script. Press enter 5 times if you don't want to change any keyboard configuration and only want to kill X. When you get to the Kill X option which looks like this:
Select YES and press enter. Wait a bit while everything configures and after that you should have the ability to CTRL+ALT+BCKSPC right on the current session. After saving any work you have pending, try it yourself.
Perfect to solve any visual issues or annoying apps.
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2Still works in 15.04, it adds
XKBOPTIONS="terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"to /etc/default/keyboard. Reconfiguring this one option leads to an unnecessaryupdate-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.19.0-30-generic, but no harm done. – skierpage Oct 20 '15 at 23:03 -