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larrygingras
June 5th, 2013, 12:31 PM
I am using kubuntu 13.04.

Suddenly, very strange red arrow appears on the screen. See attachment.
It can look like I draw it over screenshot with gimp (or whatever) but it REALLY shown on my screen as I'm writing this post.
It stays over all windows and even when I lock screen it still remains. Of course, it disappear when I switch to console, but when I switch back to X it's still there.

You can think it's a joke, but it isn't.

It is something VERY weird for me.

And I drink not much beer today. Anyway, screenshot is a proof and I'm certain that it is not altered.

larrygingras
June 5th, 2013, 02:09 PM
After careful research, I found out that it was "mouse mark" desktop effect.
Also arrows feature seems to be undocumented. It is activated by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Meta twice (first for end and then for beginning of the arrow). It seems that I accidentally pressed this shortcut.
But this effect itself seems to be handy for doing screenshots in which you need to highlight something. No gimp editing anymore.

TNFrank
June 5th, 2013, 07:13 PM
Glad you got it figured out. ;)