On 9/17/2014 10:07 PM, website reader wrote: > Has anyone ever hit this before? I was trying to build some special script > files for vim, and had to enter a control-v esc character sequence into the > script. I tried twice, got a system activity pop-up window which shows > active jobs (obviously a desk-top shortcut) and I hit esc again (or > control-V or both). > > Suddenly a dead-man skull icon appears, my mouse goes inactive, I cannot > click on any of my X-windows and the skull is the mouse pointer. [snip]
The usual way to kill X-Windows is Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, but this is normally disabled by default on "modern" systems. You didn't say what distro and window manager (Gnome, KDE, etc) you are using, which might be relevant. Or, you might have found a bug in X :-( It would be very interesting if you can reproduce it and figure out exactly what it takes to crash it. -- Jim Garrison ([email protected]) PGP Keys at http://www.jhmg.net RSA 0x04B73B7F DH 0x70738D88 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
