Quote Originally Posted by utu View Post
I thought this might suggest one reason some combos are
not available on some of the later distros.
I miss control-alt-backspace and control-alt-dele when they
aren't available.
Ah, I know what ctrl-alt-bksp does not work on some of the later distros ...

... it is no longer the default ... you have to tell X you want this functionality.

Apparently, the story goes, Ubuntu users are so crass they keep typing ctrl-alt-bksp by mistake. (How ? The whole point of it being ctrl-alt-bksp is you can't press three keys like that by mistake). Ubuntu users complained that this was not 'user-friendly' so MS (no not the MS as in Bill Gates, MS as in Ubuntu) persuaded the Xorg foundation to change the Xserver so the ctrl-alt-bksp does nothing by default.

KK rightly restored the old behaviour (he's so sentimental its untrue).

You can do so too when taking other distros out for a spin. Edit the file /etc/default/keyboard and make sure the line that starts XKBOPTIONS includes the option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp.

Now its your turn: find out how to restore the old behaviour of ctrl+alt+del.

Did you know you can now even get X to give you "shift with numeric keypad keys works as in MS Windows" ? There soon won't be any point in using Linux as it will be just a Windows clone. Damn Ubuntu.