Which application grab the mouse cursor ?

[Marius Gedminas]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:57:46PM +0200, Fredrik Tolf wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 22:37 +0200, Mildred wrote:
> > In those circumstances, I would like to be able to kill that single
> > applications using for example a virtual terminal. But I have to know
> > which application grabbed the mouse cursor.
> 
> It's not really an answer to your real question, but try setting the
> "AllowDeactivateGrabs" and "AllowClosedownGrabs" options in the
> "ServerFlags" section of your xorg.conf to 1. That will allow you to
> deactivate the grab, or xkill the connection keeping the grab with
> Ctrl-Alt-KeypadDivide and Ctrl-Alt-KeypadMultiply, respectively.

And, as a side effect, allow anyone with access to the keyboard to
unlock your screensaver without knowing the password.  Which is why
those options are off by default.

Marius Gedminas
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