Following up to my own mail, I've found out that running the
gnome-control-center and selecting the "fonts" option causes the
ctrl-alt-bs
key combination to revert to its normal behavior. I'm not sure what the
cause is, maybe something to do with having gconf running or some such. I
rarely use Gnome at any rate, but I should still be able to use xfree86
normally independant of any desktop software.
As before, if anyone knows the solution to having ctrl-alt-bs work normally
always, it would be appreciated.
-Ivan Avramovic