Just like Washington DC, nothing's ever 'final' here.

@ Krishna

Hi, Krishna.
Thanks for getting us un-polluted from the rainman.

I should have given a little more background, I suppose.
My video is i915. I use a 'nano' wireless mouse. 'nano' is the
transceiver that sits in USB slot 4 on my laptop.

'hwinu' look at the line just above it.
If you've found the lxpanel GUI to set hide-when-not-in-use,
under the Panel Settings/Advanced tab of the GUI,
after you check that box, uncheck the box just above it.
I call that box 'rsancbmw', but I thought that might be too
vague.

Touche. I mis-wrote syslog when I meant syslinux. in 3a.

I suspect ctl-alt-backspace may depend on hardware. For my
laptop it works on almost any distro. I know there is a
way to disable it, but I don't remember what that is.

@ Forester

FYI I believe that 'Occam's Razor' may be interpreted to mean:
"It's better not to know too much about some things".