[lug] Kill X11 Hot Keys?

Simos blug at chinesetearoom.com
Mon Dec 14 17:25:45 MST 2015


On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 23:07:00 +0000 (UTC)
stimits at comcast.net wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> I'm testing some things and am not really interested in nicely and slowly exiting X11 (Fedora 23/KDE). It appears that the good old "control-alt-backspace" no longer works. Is there a way to enable this to instantly (and with great gratification) summarily destroy the current X11 session without being nice to it?
>  
> Thanks!

Hi,

There's various ways to do this, but this is probably the simplest:

setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp

You can probably put this in your ~/.xinitrc

Simos


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