If the dialog is presenting a status message of some kind you can press any key. This will erase the dialog and continue normal operation of Ved. The key you press will be discarded. Important: if you press a key like [Esc] it may appear that Ved has stopped. What has happened is that the keyboard interpreter recognises that this is the first part of a mulit-key sequence and is waiting for the rest of the sequence. If this happens, just press another key.