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Thread: 10.04 <shift><backspace> quits gnome

  1. #1
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    10.04 <shift><backspace> quits gnome

    This has caught me out a few times today while working on my laptop, accidentally hitting this combination has resulted in gnome quitting...grrr

    IIRC this behaviour could be disabled by editing /etc/inittab, which of course has now been deprecated for a few releases now.

    So, question is how do I disable it?
    Last edited by echo6; June 5th, 2010 at 09:21 PM.

  2. #2
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    Re: 10.04 <shift><backspace> quits gnome

    Not sure you need help for this any more, but since it was one of the first hits I got on Google, I'm putting this up for reference.

    The solution is opening a terminal and running
    Code:
    xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = BackSpace BackSpace Terminate_Server"
    Also, I had this problem not due to XGL (as I've read is the most common culprit), but due to running a custom xmodmap file to replace "," with "." on my numpad. If you are running a custom xmodmap, it might be worth it to have a look at the file and see what "keycode 22" is bound to.

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