On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 17:36 -0700, charles f. zeitler wrote: > --- Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Sometimes - about once a day - when I click on a panel icon > > my Fedora-9 + KDE system stops responding. > > The mouse moves but cannot activate anything. > > > > The only solution I have found is Ctr-Alt-Backspace > > which restarts X (as I understand). > > > > 1) Do others share this experience? > > > > 2) Is there any less drastic solution than Ctr-Alt-Backspace? > > have you tried pressing just the Ctr key? ---- I remarked on this the other day...you can always try <Control><Alt><F1> to go to a virtual console and <Alt><F7> to come back...this often works. I think what I am seeing is a big jump in CPU usage in Plasma and X sometimes when you switch desktops in KDE-4. This problem was much worse when I was... - running with only 512MB RAM - running Firefox after using Acrobat plugin (which doesn't seem to let go well) - prior to KDE-4 updates 3 days ago or so Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
