On Mar 10, 2004, Andre Costa <acosta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've been experiencing lately some weird mouse behavior: all of a > sudden, mouse simply goes off, and even though X11 remains responsive > (keyboard works), it usually leaves me no option besides killing X11 > with CTRL+ALT+BKSP -- which often makes me lose some work. Restarting X > brings mouse back up again, as if nothing had happened. Arjan gave me this tip the other day, when I ran into a similar problem: Alt-F2, start xterm, run metacity --replace, and mouse buttons work again. Not sure whether your problem is just with buttons, or with being able to use the mouse to move the pointer, select other apps, etc, but I thought I'd share the tip anyway. It has saved me some work a number of times recently. I suspect I do have some mouse hardware issue, that causes a very large number of events to be triggered at about the same time, getting metacity very confused. Of course it shouldn't lose touch with reality just because of such an interactivity storm, but it looks like it does :-( -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
