On 1/27/06, Todd Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm getting some funky mouse action. Or rather a lack of it. I've
> had this problem where every once in a while, if I "lock" the computer
> using KDE's built-in locking feature, when I unlock it the mouse
> cursor is missing. I shake the mouse around and there's no darting
> arrow to accompany my motion. I can still use the keyboard. I can
> alt-tab and ctrl-w and so on and so on, but I can't mouse. If I move
> the mouse around and click the buttons nothing happens, so it's not
> just that it isn't visible; it isn't there.
>
> How do I troubleshoot this? And has anybody had this experience or
> heard of it? Obviously, the first thing is to pin down exactly when
> it's happening. It happens *just* often enough that this will be
> possible. For example, I'm not sure if it's only when coming out of
> "lock" or if xscreensaver kicking in will cause it, too. Also, I
> can't remember if it happens in Gnome or not. I tried ctrl-alt-f1,
> and then alt-f7, which fixes a similar problem with video being all
> fubar'd coming out of screensaver/locking, but that doesn't fix the
> mouse problem. What I've been doing is logging out of the GUI and
> then back in, which fixes it. But just now I left it and when I came
> back the mouse was suddenly there, so it's not irreversible. I wonder
> if the screensaver kicking in (slash exiting) caused it to fix.
I have gotten out of similar situations by ctrl-alt-f1, logging in as
root, and killing xscreensaver. Might not have been necessary to be
root, since xscreensaver belonged to me.
carl
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