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).
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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.....