[CentOS] mouse "stuck"

Michael Hennebry hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
Sun Sep 8 06:11:21 UTC 2013


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 at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"On Monday, I'm gonna have to tell my kindergarten class,
whom I teach not to run with scissors,
that my fiance ran me through with a broadsword."  --  Lily



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