[K12OSN] CTRL-ALT-Backspace

[Dan Young]

In /opt/ltsp/*/etc/lts.conf, of course. Sorry,

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Dan Young <dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us>
Multnomah ESD - Technology Services
503-257-1562



On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Dan Young <dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us> wrote:
> Try:
> X_DEVICE_OPTION_01 = "DontZap\" \"yes"
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> Dan Young <dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us>
> Multnomah ESD - Technology Services
> 503-257-1562
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 8:56 AM, k12ltsp <k12ltsp at hermon.net> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> For years we've been having problems with students using
>> CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to quit out of their Linux accounts without properly
>> logging off. This has caused many accounts to become corrupted, including
>> Firefox errors, etc... We've never taught the kids to use it, but when
>> LTSP was first distributed across the district, some students discovered
>> the key sequence and has spread the word. (We believe it's close to a
>> force-kill key sequence that was used on the macs, which led to the
>> discovery.)
>>
>> The students are told of the risks with using the command sequence, but
>> most still use it because it's a quick and easy way out of linux rather
>> than closing their applications and logging off the proper way.
>>
>> Is there a way to configure X to not force-kill on CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE, or
>> possibly reassign the function to another key sequence?
>>
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