{"id":289,"date":"2018-01-29T19:35:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T17:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benediktehinger.de\/blog\/science\/?p=289"},"modified":"2018-01-29T19:35:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T17:35:41","slug":"ubuntu-16-recover-ctrlaltbksp-to-restart-x-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benediktehinger.de\/blog\/science\/ubuntu-16-recover-ctrlaltbksp-to-restart-x-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 16+: Recover ctrl+alt+bksp to restart X server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Often when developing with psychotoolbox or psychopy\/opensesame your program crashes. And I often then have a full-screen window open and cannot click somewhere else. I then try to Alt+Tab and execute &#8220;sca&#8221; (screen close all) into the matlab console, with often mixed success. Sometimes restarting the computer is the last option. Instead of restarting, a useful command in older ubuntu versions was: STRG + ALT + Backspace =&gt; restart X server (=&gt; restart GUI).<\/p>\n<p>In order to activate this again use:<\/p>\n<p><code>setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp<\/code><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/askubuntu.com\/questions\/10622\/how-can-i-enable-ctrlaltbackspace\">source on askubuntu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PS: I wrote this blogpost because I looked up this thing multiple times &#8211; now I know where to look \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often when developing with psychotoolbox or psychopy\/opensesame your program crashes. And I often then have a full-screen window open and cannot click somewhere else. I then try to Alt+Tab and execute &#8220;sca&#8221; (screen close all) into the matlab console, with often mixed success. Sometimes restarting the computer is the last option. Instead of restarting, a useful command in older ubuntu versions was: STRG + ALT + Backspace =&gt; restart X server (=&gt; restart GUI). In order to activate this again use: setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp source on askubuntu &nbsp; &nbsp; PS: I wrote this blogpost because I looked up this thing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benediktehinger.de\/blog\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benediktehinger.de\/blog\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benediktehinger.de\/blog\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benediktehinger.de\/blog\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benediktehinger.de\/blog\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/benediktehinger.de\/blog\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benediktehinger.de\/blog\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benediktehinger.de\/blog\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benediktehinger.de\/blog\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}