How to enable CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE

[Tom H]

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 6:30 AM, John Aldrich <jmaldrich at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Wed July 6 2011, Andras Simon wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure I understand what you want to achieve, but
>>   man system-setup-keyboard
>> may help you.
>
> What would one put in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard if one DID want to enable
> CTL+ALT+BKSP to kill X?

How about 'XKBOPTIONS="terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"'? (untested!)

Otherwise (also untested) "setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
in ".profile" could be an option.

In GNOME, it can be done through the keyboard preferences ("Layouts"
tab and "Layout Options").