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. -Andy
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