I would like to disable the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace shortcut to kill my X server. I have tried disabling it in the gnome-keyboard-properties
"Layout Options…" dialog. When I start the dialog, the option is checked as below:
If I uncheck that box, and push the Close button, and open the "Layout Options…" dialog again, the box is still checked. How can I make unchecking that box persist, and the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace shortcut disabled? I know about the xorg.conf
options but I don't always have root access, and would like this user-level setting to work.
I'm using CentOS 6.5, GNOME 2.28.2, and X.Org 1.13.0.
Best Answer
You could try disabling the key mapping. First check
If may say something like
If you find something like this, re-map the key with
xmodmap
, replacing theTerminate_Server
withBackSpace
(case matters here!):If it works, execute this command every time you log into your machine. There are dozens of ways to automate this, e.g. by adding it to a new shell script that you add to "startup programs" in your window manager's settings - this varies with your window manager.