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kraoZ
October 16th, 2009, 06:55 AM
Why has this been disabled? It's one of the most useful features if you're a WINE user and something goes wrong fullscreen!
schauerlich
October 16th, 2009, 06:56 AM
You can enable it by editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=xorg+dontzap&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Sashin
October 16th, 2009, 06:58 AM
alt + printscreen + k seems to work well too somehow.
Mr. Picklesworth
October 16th, 2009, 07:01 AM
Why has this been disabled? It's one of the most useful features if you're a WINE user and something goes wrong fullscreen!

It'll be quicker for you if you switch to a different tty (Ctrl Alt F2 or some such), log in and run "killall wine", for example. Less destructive, too.

The switching tty key combo works at a lower level than Ctrl Alt Backspace, so should work basically anywhere.
kraoZ
October 16th, 2009, 07:01 AM
You can enable it by editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=xorg+dontzap&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Thanks.


alt + printscreen + k seems to work well too somehow.

Does it do the same thing?
Nerd King
October 16th, 2009, 07:57 AM
It'll be quicker for you if you switch to a different tty (Ctrl Alt F2 or some such), log in and run "killall wine", for example. Less destructive, too.

The switching tty key combo works at a lower level than Ctrl Alt Backspace, so should work basically anywhere.
What he said.
Icehuck
October 16th, 2009, 08:02 AM
The X.org developers disabled it and really don't seem to like the functionality.
hobo14
October 16th, 2009, 09:43 AM
The X.org developers disabled it and really don't seem to like the functionality.

Pity, because a lot of us seem to like it.
Metallion
October 16th, 2009, 10:38 AM
Does it do the same thing?

No, it drops you on a terminal session which is running next to your X session. You could kill wine from there and then type alt+control+F7 to get back to your X.
3rdalbum
October 16th, 2009, 10:47 AM
The X.org developers disabled it and really don't seem to like the functionality.

They don't have a problem with the functionality. The keyboard combination has just been moved from Control-Alt-Backspace (which some noobs hit thinking it will bring up the Windows task manager) to Alt-PrintScreen-K.

Alt-PrintScreen-K will kill the X server just like Control-Alt-Backspace used to do. And yes, it still works with the XSplash system in Karmic.
t0p
October 16th, 2009, 10:50 AM
Info in this thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1178967) on editing xorg.conf. Or you can install the package dontzap and run the command


dontzap --disable
jeremy
October 22nd, 2009, 04:48 AM
Answers here -> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/DontZap