Actually I found it quicker than I thought. There's mention of the "Activity 
Monitor Trick" for un-hanging X11 in this Apple Discussion Forum thread:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1049889&start=0&tstart=0

Cheers,

Jamie

On Mar 31, 2011, at 8:30 AM, Jamie Kennea wrote:

> I see this message:
> 
> [mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop.
> 
> FYI, I'm working off hazy memories, and somewhat anecdotal evidence, but I 
> remember that the old hang in X11 used to be fixed by something odd like 
> using Activity Monitor. I'll have to Google at some point. Sadly strange 
> events in the Universe are taking up my time right now, so I might not get to 
> this quickly.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jamie
> 
> On Mar 30, 2011, at 1:28 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> 
>> Hmm... so the sample just shows quartz-wm waiting for events (ie: idle).
>> 
>> It's odd that sampling quartz-wm would fix the issue for you.  Are there any 
>> messages like "quartz-wm: caught exception: ..." in /var/log/system.log?
>> 
>> On Mar 30, 2011, at 8:33 AM, Jamie Kennea wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Jeremy,
>>> 
>>> It happened again. This time with 2.6.1 final version. 
>>> 
>>> I've attached the sample of quartz-wm. I verified that 
>>> /opt/X11/bin/quartz-wm is the version running.
>>> 
>>> Both times I was using xemacs. I remember xemacs in the past used to cause 
>>> hangs in X11 (back in the pre-you days), especially when doing mouse-wheel 
>>> scrolling. 
>>> 
>>> Here's a weird thing.... running the sample seemed to fix it...hmm....
>>> 
>>> Jamie
>>> 
>>> <Sample of quartz-wm.txt>
>>> 
>>> On Mar 18, 2011, at 3:31 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Weird.  If it happens again, please also get a sample of the quartz-wm 
>>>> process.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Jeremy
>>>> 
>>>> On Mar 18, 2011, at 11:12, Jamie Kennea wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Mar 18, 2011, at 12:09 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Yeah.  This sounds a lot like quartz-wm has grabbed the pointer and not 
>>>>>> released it.  This was a problem in the past but should be fixed with 
>>>>>> recent versions.  Can you verify that the correct quartz-wm is being 
>>>>>> run?  'ps aux | grep quartz-wm' should show /opt/X11/bin/quartz-wm and 
>>>>>> not /opt/local/bin/quartz-wm or /usr/bin/quartz-wm... althought I think 
>>>>>> both of those versions should be fine as well...
>>>>> 
>>>>> It shows: /opt/X11/bin/quartz-wm
>>>>> 
>>>>> I've quit now and upgraded to 2.6.1 (I had to actually be able to do some 
>>>>> work). Hopefully this won't happen again. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jamie
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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