[CentOS] mouse "stuck"

Nicolas Thierry-Mieg Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr
Sun Sep 8 10:07:20 UTC 2013


Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Sep 2013, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 8 Sep 2013, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>>
>>> Sommetimes, for no apparent reason, my mouse cursor will become
>>> four arrows and suddenly I cannot do anything with my desktop.
>>> I can move the cursor and that is it.
>>> Clicking has no effect.
>>> cnrtl-alt-F6 gave me another virtual console from which I could post this.
>>> Other rebooting, how do I fix this?
>>> I'm running xfce on 6.2.
>>
>> I've tried to run another X server, but it doesn't seem to take.
>> Do I need to do it as root?
>> I've tried Xorg and X with :1 and  tty2,
>> but nothing shows up.
>
> I've found xinit and made it run xfce for me,
> but the other server instance still has a stuck mouse.
>

alt-ctrl-backspace should kill the X session



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