What is "+" on mouse cursor?

[Bob Chiodini]

On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 06:24 -0500, David Niemi wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 11:06 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
> > David Niemi wrote:
> > 
> > > I was using the calculator and after I did a quick sum I couldn't close
> > > any open windows and noticed a small "+" sign attached to my mouse
> > > arrow / cursor.  My keyboard is somewhat responsive but I cannot close
> > > or select other open windows with the mouse and the keyboard shortcuts
> > > somewhat work.
> > 
> > Sounds like what you would see if dragging something somewhere and
> > dropping would copy it.
> > 
> > > I've never seen this before nor read about this, any ideas on what I can
> > > do to get control back or should I just force reboot?
> > 
> > Try pressing escape?
> > 
> > If not, Ctrl-Alt-F1 and login, then
> > 
> > ps -Af
> > 
> > and look for evil processes, eg, the calculator one, and kill it.
> > 
> > If all else fails, kill X from the text console, it should restart okay
> > without needing a reboot.
> > 
> OK, Ctrl-Alt-F1'd logged in as root, killed gcalculator PID 30750, and
> typed "exit" which logged me out and I am now back at a login prompt,
> how do I get back to my running X session.  
> 
> Kinda dumb question I know but I never needed to do this before so
> didn't learn it yet!
> 

Cntl-Alt-F7

Bob...