Just ran into a weird thing. I was viewing a slide show from 'qiv', and it suddenly aborted leaving me with no mouse or keyboard. The Window Manager still runs, nothing died except for 'qiv', but the WM (enlightenment) was not getting focus from the mouse or keyboard. But I could CTRL-ALT-F1 to switch to console, and do $ DISPLAY=":0.0" /usr/bin/eesh restart to restart enlightenment. After that I switched back to X, and now enlightenment gets keyboard focus: I can use keyboard shortcuts to switch between desktops and jump between windows, but I have no mouse.
I managed to safely shutdown almost all of the running applications (except for azureus) with the keyboard and restarted X to get back my mouse. Is there a way to restart the X server without affecting the WM and programs running on top of it? Or is there some way of getting the mouse back in a situation like this? Thanks, W -- "Well, someday we'll have to think about it [leaving earth] in the sense that the sun will expand into earth's orbit, which will make it rather difficult to live here." ~DeathMech, S. Sondhi. P-town PHY 205 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 23 days, 20:27 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
