{"id":466,"date":"2009-09-02T14:05:43","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T13:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/albertomilone.com\/wordpress\/?p=466"},"modified":"2009-09-02T14:05:43","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T13:05:43","slug":"how-to-enabledisable-ctrlaltbackspace-in-kubuntu-karmic-9-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/how-to-enabledisable-ctrlaltbackspace-in-kubuntu-karmic-9-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to enable\/disable Ctrl+Alt+Backspace in (K)Ubuntu Karmic 9.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you might have noticed already if you use Ubuntu Karmic, Ctrl+Alt+Backspace (i.e. the shortcut which was used to restart the X server) has to be enabled in a different way with respect to previous releases of Ubuntu.<\/p>\n<p>This is due to the fact that &#8220;DontZap&#8221; is no longer an option in the X server and has become an option in XKB instead.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, now it&#8217;s very easy to use your Desktop environment of choice (e.g. GNOME, KDE) to enable or to disable the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace shortcut. It is also possible to do it without KDE or GNOME.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend that you do it from your desktop environment of choice (as you may find it easier):<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/X\/Config\/DontZap\">Instructions here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>P.S. Instructions for XFCE are more than welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you might have noticed already if you use Ubuntu Karmic, Ctrl+Alt+Backspace (i.e. the shortcut which was used to restart the X server) has to be enabled in a different way with respect to previous releases of Ubuntu. This is due to the fact that &#8220;DontZap&#8221; is no longer an option in the X server <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/how-to-enabledisable-ctrlaltbackspace-in-kubuntu-karmic-9-10\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planet","category-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}