Re: Fish swimming over my Desktop and ... system locked ?!?
Martin Emrich wrote:
> I was writing some tex file in emacs, and suddenly, a little blue Fish
> swam over my Display (no, I dont work underwater ;)
> It looked similar to the one in this Fish-Applet for GNOME Panel.
Sounds like the GNOME panel's easter egg.
> After it stopped halfway between the upper-left corner and the center of
> the Screen, my system hang. Only the mouse was moveable, but no Keyboard
> Functions worked (no CTRL-ALT-F1, no CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE, no
> CTRL-ALT-DELETE). As I was not at home, I had no other computer
> available to telnet, so I was forced to push the "reboot-and-do-fsck"
> button...
Nasty. I've never heard of the easter egg causing that. Most likely some
other problem that just happened to crop up as the fish was swimming by.
Craig
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