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Old 02-04-2009, 01:00 PM   #1
faentur
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Is is possible to capture <Ctrl><Alt>Backspace in Gnome (and how)?


heh, that should be "Is it possible....

Running RHEL4, Gnome 2.8, Xorg 6.8 (newer but standard versions under RHEL5, too); I've disabled the Control+Alt+Backspace key in X by adding

Option "DontZap" "true"

to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. according to x.org that should pass the key sequence through to clients (see:
http://www.x.org/archive/X11R6.8.0/doc/xorg.conf.5.html).

Then I have opened gconf-editor and traversed the tree to
apps->metacity->global_keybindings and keybinding_commands, and duplicated the existing keybinding for Control+Alt+Delete (which points to gnome-session-save --kill), and called it <Control><Alt>BackSpace.

however, while Ctrl+Alt+Delete works perfectly, pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace garners no response whatsoever.

Any ideas?

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