On Tuesday 26 June 2007, Nigel Henry wrote: >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. It works that way on this FC6 box, the 2nd ctl+alt & esc reverts the pointer to normal. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) His life was formal; his actions seemed ruled with a ruler.
