Re: [newbie] kde 3.1 problem, no mouse

2003-06-18 Thread Robin
David E Fox wrote: I seem to have lost my mouse... It was working fine, and I switched to some stuff on the second desktop. For whatever reason I haven't been able to get the mouse to move again. I'm a bit crippled, trying to select between windows via alt-tab, using keyboard maneuvering (no kbd

Re: [newbie] kde 3.1 problem, no mouse

2003-06-18 Thread Troy Davidson
This has happened to me before. I solve it by doing the following: 1. CTRL-ALT-F1 (Drop out of X) 2. Login as Root 3. Type 'mousedrake' 4. Click 'ok' 5. CTRL-ALT-F7 (Get back into X) Doing the Mousedrake reinitializes the mouse. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107

Re: [newbie] kde 3.1 problem, no mouse

2003-06-18 Thread Russ Kepler
On Tuesday 17 June 2003 10:32 pm, David E Fox wrote: I have stuff I need to keep running. Short of restarting KDE, is there a way to restore the mouse? I used to lose the mouse with my KVM, and always went to a session using CTRL-ALT-1, logged in as root and ran mousedrake. That'll reset the