Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 17:03:11 +0200 From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> To: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: reset X without reboot Message-ID: <20011008170311.A19213@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20011008045126.E1481-100000@big>; from root@pukruppa.de on Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 05:13:26AM %2B0000 References: <20011008045126.E1481-100000@big>
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On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 05:13:26AM +0000, P. U. (Uli) Kruppa wrote: > Hi! > > 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? > > > [oh yes: I am running XF86-4 , gnome , sawfish -ports on > -STABLE] > When such a thing happens I'm logging in remotely and kill all X stuff, then restart xdm or whatever I want. Most of the time this works. If not, I have at least the possibility to do a clean shutdown and reboot. Karel. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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