From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 8 8: 3:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl (wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl [131.155.56.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4463B37B409 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 08:03:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from karelj@localhost) by wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f98F3Dm36526; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 17:03:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from karelj) Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 17:03:11 +0200 From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" To: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: reset X without reboot Message-ID: <20011008170311.A19213@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> References: <20011008045126.E1481-100000@big> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20011008045126.E1481-100000@big>; from root@pukruppa.de on Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 05:13:26AM +0000 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 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