How do I enable ctrl-alt-backspace using console? I have problems with X.org and often server gets stuck with black screen. I'm trying to solve this issue, but I can't find a way to kill X. ctrl-alt-F(n) does not switch to a terminal.
1 Answer
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
is deprecated, use the Magic SysRq Key for restarting X instead, which is Alt+Print+K
.
Alternately, if you can switch to the tty consoles, you could try to use sudo killall X
for killing off X.
Sidenote: Be aware that the killall
command kills all processes with the given name only under Linux. Under BSD f.e., it will kill all processes...which is a rather bad thing to do.
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
is deprecated, useAlt+Print+K
instead. You could also trykilall X
.