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 <Control><Alt>Esc key combination handy when needed - bad to click on desktop when not needed. Craig