Craig White <craigwhite at 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..... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060227/c83cd617/attachment-0002.html>