Mouse or keyboard lockup under kdesktop

[Hutton, Keith]

 Is there a way to "mirror" the current kdesktop eg vnc style so I can gain
control of the application on the desktop. Gaining system control is not a
problem, but losing the current desktop is.


-----Original Message-----
From: michael [mailto:cs at networkingnewsletter.org.uk] 
Sent: 09 January 2008 13:36
To: Hutton, Keith
Cc: 'xorg at lists.freedesktop.org'
Subject: Re: Mouse or keyboard lockup under kdesktop

On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 13:22 +0000, Hutton, Keith wrote:
> Hi all,
> Does any one know how to recover from mouse or keyboard lockup. The 
> mouse pointer still moves but that's all it does. I have seen this on 
> various hardware and many different linux versions.
> Happens about once or twice per month. Can I reset them via remote login?
> Sometimes swapping usb port helps but not always.
> 

see my recent posts where I had something not dissimilar when I over-clocked
my AMD64 chip.

to recover mouse, do ALT-TAB (to 'nothing' window) then ALT-TAB again (back
to required window)

for keyboard I found that CNTL-ALT-F1 would sometimes still work so could
switch to TTY. could also ssh in from another box. if required did a
/etc/init.d/gdm restart (couldn't find anything beneath that fixed it)


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Michael Bane
Centre for Atmospheric Science
University of Manchester, U.K.
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