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Enabling CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE by default

Asked by Andreas Trawoeger

Jaunty has disabled CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE by default and it can be reenabled by running "sudo dontzap --disable".

That does work well on a single computer. But how can CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE be enabled by default on half a dozen PCs that are installed via preseeding or upgraded via apt-get dist-upgrade?

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Bernhard (b.a.koenig) said : 		#1

Half a dozen = 6

So why not do it on every machine? It's just 6? :)

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Andreas Trawoeger (atrawog) said : 		#2

@Bernhard
Migrating them to Gentoo would solve the problem too ;-))

I'm pretty close to replacing all manual installation and administration task on the Ubuntu computers I support with automatic processes like preseeding and apt-get dselect-upgrade. And its quite strange if you can do a fully automatic Ubuntu installation with 2218 preselected packages. Only to be forced to manually edit your configuration to enable a single keystroke.

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Scott Todd (scott.todd) said : 		#3

Perhaps you could edit xorg.conf to include the following:

Section "ServerFlags"
 Option "DontZap" "off"
EndSection

I found the suggestion here: http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?action=printpage;topic=3100383.0

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Uwe Geuder (ubuntulp-ugeuder) said : 		#4

Hmm, I'm only administrating 3 completely different Ubuntu machines so I'm not familiar with the processes Andreas is talking about.

Wouldn't it be possible to create a small "empty" .deb package that just has the desired dontzap command in it's installation script?

(or do you need the dontzap at every boot or every session startup? Well, then it goes to /etc/init.d/ or your default session scripts. No problem for a .deb package either)

Disclaimers:

- Of course learning to create debian packages isn't the easiest thing either, but if you happen to be familiar with the basics, such a package should a 5 minutes job...

- of course this could be complete overkill, as mentioned I'm not familiar with mass installations

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