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Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

Asked by AlphaNumeric

PROBLEM: I think my keyboard is incorrectly mapped or something. I would like to know what I need to do to get the CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE key combination to make X restart.
RATIONALE: For example, if I make a change to the xorg.conf file and I do that a lot whilst experimenting, I don't want to have to reboot entire machine. I'm just a home user. This is not a server for a company or anything.

RESEARCH: dontzap is not used in 8.10 so please don't even bother going down that path. I've already done a good bit of research and even on IRC. Someone mentioned that maybe the problem is that I don't have my keyboard properly mapped or something but the GUI settings for Keyboard under System>Admin>Keyboard don't show anything regarding a setting for ctrl-alt-backspace. There IS something for ctrl-alt-DELETE but that's different.

Any help appreciated and thanks in advance.
--alphaNumeric

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Andre Mangan (kyphi) said : 		#1

You do not need to set the combination but rather your keyboard layout.

Look under System, Preferences, Keyboard and open the Layouts tab. That will let you see what you have set your keyboard model to as well as the layout.

Would you post this information back please.

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AlphaNumeric (alphanumeric) said : 		#2

No. As mentioned in my first post, the whole "map your keyboard " thing is not the answer I'm looking for. After some poking around this is what I've discovered. 1. As of this version(8.10) , Canonical deactivated this functionality so ppl wouldn't mistakenly use it and automatically RE-log back in. 2. There is another alternative but it's a little different than what I was hoping for. BTW, this 2nd solution is what YOU were referring to. Basically , you should try pressing CTRL-ALT-DELETE on the keyboard. Afterwards, a LOG OUT prompt appears and you can elect to log out , then log back in.

My whole point was that I LIKED the having ability to be able to simply do a keyboard shortcut so I could quickly refresh the system/config files, etc without having to reboot or (yes) even move my hand on the mouse allllllllll the way up to the LOG OUT button and click log out. Mann.... that really HURTS! :)

That's all I got. I hope it was sufficient. :)

AlphaNumeric