[Mageia-dev] Alt+ctrl+esc not working in clean kde nstall

[David W. Hodgins]

On Thu, 26 May 2011 22:31:56 -0400, Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 2011/5/27 David W. Hodgins <davidwhodgins at gmail.com>:
>>
>> In my install where I updated from Mandriva 2010.2 to Mageia, in kde4,
>> I can use alt+ctrl+esc, to change the mouse cursor to a skull and
>> crossbones, and then click on a window to kill it.
>>
>> In my clean install of Mageia, it seems to be acting like ctrl+w
>> (close window).
>
> Hmm, how do you see the difference between "closing a window" and
> "kill a window"?

Install and run pysol.  Press alt+ctrl+esc.  With my updated 2010.2,
the skull & crossbones appear, and I can click on the pysol window
to kill it.

With a clean install of mageia, the pysol game gets minimized and
paused.

Usually I've used it when a web browser hits a site that causes a
javascript loop, or a program otherwise becomes unresponsive.

I can use alt+f2, and run xkill (which I installed, trying to fix
this), which works, but not the keyboard shortcut.

Regards, Dave Hodgins