Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote: On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 13:30 -0800, BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
What does it mean when your mouse hour glass pointer turns into a skull and cross bones symbol for a few seconds and is then followed by your desktop icons being scrambled around to different locations. This reminds me of a bug in the old Windows 98 SE desktop.
What would cause this? This has happened to me once before on Fedora 3 (I think, maybe 2).
---- the 'skull & crossbones' is a kill for the next window/object you click on - be careful with that.
It is invoked by Esc key combination
handy when needed - bad to click on desktop when not needed.
Craig
Hum.... yes I can see where it would be bad to click on the desktop with it. In my case when it happened, I had not been doning any ESC-key stuff when it happened. The Screen Saver had been running and I moved the mouse (clicked it maybe?) to end the screen saver, and then the jolly roger appeared.....