Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 10:02:52 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reset X without reboot Message-ID: <15297.49180.66646.498962@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <123831579@toto.iv>
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P. U. (Uli) Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> 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. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> 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
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