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Bug 368999 - Ctrl+Alt+Backspace when the screen is locked kills the X session
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace when the screen is locked kills the X session
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: gnome-screensaver
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
2.16.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-screensaver maintainers
gnome-screensaver maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-11-01 18:22 UTC by Pradeep Varadarajan
Modified: 2008-11-13 19:37 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.15/2.16


Description Pradeep Varadarajan 2006-11-01 18:22:58 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
When the screen is locked, if you press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, the X session is killed, and all the apps that were running on the desktop.

I am running ubuntu Edgy

Steps to reproduce:
1. Lock screen
2. Press 'CTRL + ALT + BACKSPACE'



Actual results:
The X sessions dies -> the user session is lost.

Expected results:
The 'CTRL + ALT + BACKSPACE" shouldn't work when the computer is locked. 
This is more of a access control violation.

Does this happen every time?
Yes

Other information:

https://launchpad.net/products/evolution/+bug/68488
Comment 1 William Jon McCann 2006-11-06 04:13:55 UTC 
I think one usually uses DontZap in xorg.conf [1] for this.

[1] http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/X11R7.0/doc/html/xorg.conf.5.html

I'm not sure what the evolution bug has to do with this...
Comment 2 Pradeep Varadarajan 2006-11-06 14:52:02 UTC 
> I'm not sure what the evolution bug has to do with this..
Under 'other information', it should have been
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screensaver/+bug/68695

The wrong URL got copied :/
Comment 3 William Jon McCann 2008-11-13 19:37:05 UTC 
I think if this is not desired then zap should be disabled.