On 13 Sep 1997, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > dada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi.... > > > > Is true that I never lose control on my linux box, but some times I lose > > control in my X-Windows and I must restart the X. Is that usual? > > > > I supose that's due to use some aplications. But if this is true, why I > > lose control on all aplications that I'm using? > > Some application (especially Motif-ones) sometimes grab all mouse and > keyboard event (e.g. when you select a submenu). If the application > (or the widget library) forgets to correctly release the grab you will > be unable to do anything with X-Window System, including switching to > other terminals using ctrl-alt-f<x> and zapping X11 using ctrl-alt-bs. > > The only solution is a terminal attached to your computer, some people > use their calculators (the better TI and HP ones) for this purpose. > You can also use another computer in a local network to remote login > into your machine.
I believe there is also a program out there that will allow you to kill the xserver or shut down cleanly with your joystick. Of course I suppose that could get grabbed as well by some apps. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
