Window won't go away

[Gene Heskett]

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.



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