On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:07 PM, website reader <[email protected]> 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. > > Finally after about 20 secs or so, the mouse pointer reverts back to the > traditional pointer. But all windows had been terminated, including all my > active jobs. > > I did a google image search on "Linux Kill X Windows icon" but nothing > comes up matching the skull icon. > > How can I disable this feature so it won't be accidently invoked again? > This is quite painful and I don't want to have to restart jobs which have > been running for hours. > > Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > >From the sounds of it you may have launched the program called "xkill". Your description of the dead man skull makes it sound like this is the program. It is a GUI program that essentially takes mouse input, and sends a kill command to whatever window you click on. I don't remember for sure but I think pressing ESC will cancel it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xkill HTH Matt M. LinuxKnight _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
