What is "+" on mouse cursor?

[David Niemi]

On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 23:04 +1100, Glenn McKechnie wrote:
> David Niemi wrote:

>  
> > Yup that worked, I didn't want to try finding this by trial and error,
> > having enough fun with whatever I did to get the "+" sign.  What causes
> > that?
> > 
> > Also, for future reference what is it called when one Ctrl-Alt-F1's or
> > Ctrl-Alt-F7's? 
> 
> Switching terminals? Wouldn't know if that's the *correct* name, but
> that is basically what you're doing. You've got 6 text terminals
> (consoles) and one running X (No. 7)
> 
> The real reason why I'm responding to this email is to clarify, expand
> on, the key combinations. When you're in the GUI (X), Ctrl-Alt-Fx is
> required to switch to the text terminal of your choice (usually 1
> through to 6).  Once you're at the terminal (text mode) of you're choice
> you can drop the Alt key, ie: Alt-F2 will get the second console, Alt-F3
> the third, until Alt-F7 which gets the seventh terminal - and usually
> where the GUI is running.

And the fog begins to clear ... :)  Thanks for the explanation, I knew
some of it but couldn't figure out the nomenclature to look it up in man
or in some books I have.