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

Fri May 27 04:47:54 CEST 2011

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
+