[vox-tech] Accidentally hitting ctrl-alt-backspace in the X window system

Henry House hajhouse at houseag.com
Wed Sep 21 19:05:04 PDT 2005


På 2005-09-21, skrev Issac Trotts:
> In the terminal programs I use, alt-backspace erases the word to the left of
> the cursor. This is very handy, but when my thumb slips just a small amount
> it also presses the ctrl key, thereby ending my X window session. It would
> be nice to know if there's a way to turn this feature off. Anyone?

You want the "DontZap" option in your X-server configuration file (on a
standard distribution, this is /etc/X11/XF86Config-4). See the man page for
a full description: XF86Config-4 (5x).

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