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.
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.
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.
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
On 09/08/2013 12:31 AM, 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.
Have you tried pressing the [ESC] key? Sounds like you somehow got into "Move" mode.
On Sun, 8 Sep 2013, Robert Nichols wrote:
On 09/08/2013 12:31 AM, 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.
Have you tried pressing the [ESC] key? Sounds like you somehow got into "Move" mode.
That is what it looked like to me also, not that I could move anyting. In any case, [ESC] had no effect.
I could use cntrl-alt-backspace to kill the session, but that seems too much like giving up. This has happened to me before. I'd like a different solution.
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 6:19 AM, Michael Hennebry hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
On Sun, 8 Sep 2013, Robert Nichols wrote:
On 09/08/2013 12:31 AM, 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.
I could use cntrl-alt-backspace to kill the session, but that seems too much like giving up. This has happened to me before. I'd like a different solution.
Did you try unplugging the mouse and plugging it back in? (Obviously, if wireless USB, unplug the receiver)
If you have gpm running for console mouse services, try restarting (or just plain stopping) that. It hasn't happened to me for a long time, but at one point for me gpm was occasionally getting into a bad state and turning off the mouse device, which would cause the X server to lose track of it as well.
On Sun, 8 Sep 2013, Bart Schaefer wrote:
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 6:19 AM, Michael Hennebry hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
On Sun, 8 Sep 2013, Robert Nichols wrote:
On 09/08/2013 12:31 AM, 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.
I could use cntrl-alt-backspace to kill the session, but that seems too much like giving up. This has happened to me before. I'd like a different solution.
Did you try unplugging the mouse and plugging it back in? (Obviously, if wireless USB, unplug the receiver)
No. Next time.
If you have gpm running for console mouse services, try restarting (or just plain stopping) that. It hasn't happened to me for a long time, but at one point for me gpm was occasionally getting into a bad state and turning off the mouse device, which would cause the X server to lose track of it as well.
I don't now. ps -e | grep gpm produces an empty list. I eventually gave up and used cntrl-alt-backspace. I'll try to remember the suggestions the next time it happens.
BTW when I had started another session with XFCE, it was missing a couple things: the hibernate option on logout the icon to control whether my computer would interact with the network.
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