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Date:      Mon, 8 Oct 2001 17:03:11 +0200
From:      "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl>
To:        "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: reset X without reboot
Message-ID:  <20011008170311.A19213@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20011008045126.E1481-100000@big>; from root@pukruppa.de on Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 05:13:26AM %2B0000
References:  <20011008045126.E1481-100000@big>

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On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 05:13:26AM +0000, P. U. (Uli) Kruppa wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Sometimes, when I open too many "big" applications on my
> desktop [StarOffice, Gimp, Mozilla] the mousepointer will
> point about an inch to left to the place I can click on
> the screen.
> Yet I have only found one way to repair this: Completely
> reboot my machine
> (neither gnome's restart desktop is of any help, nor
> [ctrl] + [alt] + [<--]).
> Is there any other way to reset this?
> 
> 
> [oh yes: I am running XF86-4 , gnome , sawfish -ports on
> -STABLE]
>
When such a thing happens I'm logging in remotely and kill all X stuff,
then restart xdm or whatever I want. Most of the time this works. If not,
I have at least the possibility to do a clean shutdown and reboot.

Karel.

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