Ubuntu 9.04 disabled the semi-crucial keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, that used to force the X graphical server to restart, and made it wonky to re-enable. Luckily, Ubuntu 9.10, due out in nine ...

In the last release of Ubuntu (9.04) the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace key sequence normally used to kill the X server was disabled by default. Apparently many people like to kill their X server this way so a ...

Google has received a lot of feedback about its decision to switch the keyboard shortcut for going back in Chrome -- from the backspace key to alt + the left arrow key -- starting in Chrome 52, which ...

The Canary version of Edge is bringing back the ability to navigate between previous and next pages using the backspace key via a hidden flag. The feature was removed from Chrome in 2016. Microsoft’s ...

Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

This has gotta be somewhere, but between google and the forum search, I'm not finding it. <BR><BR>If X-Windows on Linux goes blooey, I can always hit ctrl-alt-backspace to kill it then re-start it ...