On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 11:06 +0000, Andy Green wrote: > David Niemi wrote: > > > I was using the calculator and after I did a quick sum I couldn't close > > any open windows and noticed a small "+" sign attached to my mouse > > arrow / cursor. My keyboard is somewhat responsive but I cannot close > > or select other open windows with the mouse and the keyboard shortcuts > > somewhat work. > > Sounds like what you would see if dragging something somewhere and > dropping would copy it. > > > I've never seen this before nor read about this, any ideas on what I can > > do to get control back or should I just force reboot? > > Try pressing escape? > > If not, Ctrl-Alt-F1 and login, then > > ps -Af > > and look for evil processes, eg, the calculator one, and kill it. > > If all else fails, kill X from the text console, it should restart okay > without needing a reboot. > OK, Ctrl-Alt-F1'd logged in as root, killed gcalculator PID 30750, and typed "exit" which logged me out and I am now back at a login prompt, how do I get back to my running X session. Kinda dumb question I know but I never needed to do this before so didn't learn it yet!
