From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 8 8: 3: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C78B137B414 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 08:02:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 42136 invoked by uid 100); 8 Oct 2001 15:02:52 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15297.49180.66646.498962@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 10:02:52 -0500 To: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reset X without reboot In-Reply-To: <123831579@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG P. U. (Uli) Kruppa types: > Sometimes, when I open too many "big" applications on my > desktop [StarOffice, Gimp, Mozilla] the mousepointer will > point about an inch to left to the place I can click on > the screen. > Yet I have only found one way to repair this: Completely > reboot my machine > (neither gnome's restart desktop is of any help, nor > [ctrl] + [alt] + [<--]). > Is there any other way to reset this? Have you tried restarting the X server? If you're using startx from a shell prompt, just exit X and run startx again. If you're using ?dm, you'll have to go to a different vty - with something like CTRL-ALT-F2 - use ps to find the X server, and kill it by hand. You'll probably want to log out back to the ?dm screen before doing that. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message