Anyone using Ubuntu 9.04?

Tue Apr 28 20:33:03 EDT 2009

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 07:55:18PM -0400, David Kramer wrote:
> Huh??!!  WTF would they remove the ability to kill the X server?

This is an upstream change by the Xorg crowd.  Ctrl-Alt-Backspace 
apparently conflicts with some Emacs keybinding.

It's in Fedora 11 as well.  You should read the release notes; Ubuntu 
gives you a simple way to re-enable it:

<http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/904#Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled by default in Xorg>

Ugh!  Spaces in the anchors...

-ben

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