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

Issac Trotts issac.trotts at gmail.com
Wed Sep 21 21:37:44 PDT 2005


On 9/22/05, Henry House <hajhouse at houseag.com> wrote:
>
> 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).


I just added these three lines to my /etc/X11/xorg.conf and restarted the X
server, and it worked.

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DontZap"
EndSection

Thanks for your help.
Issac
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