Disbable point in the middel of the screen

[Thomas Olsen]

On Saturday 16 January 2010 03:50:44 Leonard wrote:
> Thomas Olsen wrote:
> > On Tuesday 12 January 2010 16:05:21 Jens Strohschnitter wrote:
> >> > It looks suspiciously like a shadow effect on a tiny invisible window.
> >> > Perhaps it's a bad  icon or something like that. If you are using
> >> > desktop effects (3d) then that could be what it is.
> >> > Check what's running (ctrl+alt+esc) and perhaps you will find the
> >> > suspect.
> >>
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> don't know why, but CTRL+ALT+ESC does not work :-(
> >
> > On my system it's CTRL-ESC to get the System Activity monitor.
> > CTRL-ALT-ESC turns the pointer to that nice, deadly skull :-)
> 
> And on my kubuntu desktop it killed all my open windows and permanently
> killed my kde desktop.  Should have known better given the deadly skull
> pointer.  Finally got a konsole screen using atl-tab and was able to
> shutdown and restart which fixed it.  Please be careful with suggested
> commands as this might discourage a newbie.

Well that was actually why I corrected the previous suggestion and told him to 
use CTRL-ESC instead. I could of course have been more specific about the 
deadly scull being deadly but I thought it was self evident.

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Best Regards / Med venlig hilsen

Thomas Olsen