[xubuntu-users] Strange mouse 'X' cursor

[MR ZenWiz]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 7:22 AM Charles M <chaslinux at gmail.com> wrote:
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> It doesn't sound like it, but you may have triggered xkill, a program to kill Windows. Xkill is useful for killing stubborn programs that won't close when you tell them. Normally the key combination for this is CTRL + ALT + ESC. The x then appears and when you click on a window it kills it.
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> It sounds like something else is happening in your case, but I thought I'd mention it in case...
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Thanks, but I don't ever recall using xkill.

I have noticed that this tends to happen whenever I run okular for
viewing my pdfs.

I do not recall it happening with k3b, which I used recently.

Still an annoying mystery.

Mark