On Friday 18 January 2002 17:13 pm, Lee wrote: > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Screem > Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:11:12 -0500 > From: Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Installed Mandrake 8.0 a while back and still investigating all the > goodies that install with it in full install. One of these is a beastie, > under internet on the menu, called Screem. Accessed to see what it did. > I got some type of bootup screen featuring a woman in black and white in > the act of screaming along with a bootup log that didn't boot. Lacking > any type of tool bar the thing couldn't be shut down. Was forced to shut > shutdown and reboot three times before it finally went away, but then a > strange thing. The X server now takes a long time to come up and there > is a long between logging in at the kde or gnome log in and the > presentation of the kde/gnome window. After the desktop window finally > comes up everything behaves normally. The questions are What the heck is > Screem and what does it do? How does it boot? Once accessed how do you > shut it down? And finally, what does it have to do with the X server? > > Lee
Not related to your main questions, but you are aware that a Ctl-Alt-ESC in X will give you a skull-and-crossbones for a cursor? After getting that, just click in any window and that window will be killed. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 01/18/02 17:18 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "An expert is someone from out of town." _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
