On Tuesday 26 June 2007 19:07, Bob Goodwin - W2BOD wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Tuesday 26 June 2007 18:24, Mike McCarty wrote: > >> Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote: > >>> Or try pressing CTRL+ALT+ESC (or whatever combination is set in your > >>> GUI to kill programs) and then click the application with the skull > >>> cursor. > >> > >> How do I find out what that may be? CTRL-ALT-ESC seemingly does nothing > >> on my computer. > >> > >> Mike > > > > I havn't used CTRL + ALT + ESC for ages, and had forgotten all about it. > > It does work ok, but its a case of CTRL + ALT, and then a tap on the ESC > > key, and the skull should appear on your mouse pointer. Make sure the > > pointer is on the top of the window you want to kill, and a single left > > click kills the window like magic. Warning!!! Dont click the pointer if > > it's on a blank bit of desktop, otherwise your likely to kill the > > desktop. I've done that. Doh. > > > > Nigel. > > It works well enough but - Then if I decide I don't really want to kill > anything how do I get rid of the skull? I had to search for something > to sacrifice! > > Bob Goodwin That goes into the area of premeditated killing, like think before you commit yourself. Seriously though, I just tried this on Kubuntu. You have the skull placed on the window you were going to kill, but change your mind. Do a CTRL+ALT, and this time hold down the ESC key, and the skull will flash, and when you let go the keys the skull is gone. That's the way I observe it anyway. Nigel.
