Comments on: Disable Shift-Backspace from Restarting XGL

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:00:44 +0000

Thanks guys esp whOrd, the change of keyboard layout (101 to 105 key) did it for me. Monitor nearly flew out a window a few minutes ago (would have been a very expensive keyboard shortcut screw up)

By: vinayak

vinayak — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:53:36 +0000

Ohh gosh …
This was the most awful & annoying feature I have ever seen in my whole 6-7 years of experience with Xserver/xgl !
I hated it very much… Is it a bug or feature provide by some Idiot.

Thanks a lot …

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:53:08 +0000

This was driving me nuts. Thanks.

By: Marcel

Marcel — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:58:03 +0000

Erase de quotes, single or double, put them back using your keyboard

By: geezus

geezus — Fri, 11 May 2007 21:35:40 +0000

Hey,

when i enter the command on the terminal, it works fine. But when restart the terminal it gives me

xmodmap: unknown command on line commandline:1
xmodmap: unable to open file ‘22′ for reading
xmodmap: unable to open file ‘=’ for reading
xmodmap: unable to open file ‘BackSpace’ for reading
xmodmap: unable to open file ‘BackSpace’ for reading
xmodmap: unable to open file ‘Terminate_Server’’ for reading
xmodmap: 6 errors encountered, aborting.

So i guess the problem is with what I am entering in the .Xmodmap file.
I entered the following (without any quotes in the .Xmodmap file):

keycode 22 = BackSpace BackSpace Terminate_Server

Am I doing something wrong? Thanks for helping out guyz .. this shortcut is really annoying.

geezus

By: Dom

Dom — Tue, 08 May 2007 00:43:53 +0000

xmodmap -e “keycode 22 = BackSpace BackSpace”

AlwaysLearning’s fix worked for me.

Using Ubuntu Feisty Fawn with Beryl
THANK YOU SO MUCH!…I can finally type again!

By: Muthu Kannan

Muthu Kannan — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 03:38:50 +0000

You saved my life.. Thanks!!

By: scatterbrains » Blog Archive » links for 2007-04-13

scatterbrains » Blog Archive » links for 2007-04-13 — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:30:56 +0000

[...] Disable Shift-Backspace from Restarting XGL « customising life This has become sooo annoying. I am always accidentally pressing Shit Backspace. Here’s how you can turn off this ‘feature’ xmodmap -e ‘keycode 22 = BackSpace BackSpace Terminate_Server’ (tags: xgl kde) [...]

By: wh0rd

wh0rd — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:12:00 +0000

Andi:
Use single quotes, the key located next to Enter on most keyboards:
‘ not “

By: AlwaysLearning

AlwaysLearning — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:49:31 +0000

Guys, be careful with the quotes!

It seems that this Blog like to use so-called Smartquotes, like Microsoft Word. When pasting the command into your Terminal make sure that you replace them with the quote character on your keyboard (42).

xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = BackSpace BackSpace"