Hi Folks,
This may not be a specifically S.u.S.E. problem but I'm putting it to the list
because this is the only place I'm likely to find many people with the same
general setup.
I leave my system up and running continuously.
The problem is: Once every few days, when I click with the mouse, suddenly X
stops responding to mouse clicks. The mouse pointer continues to move around,
but that's all. The only solution is to kill X.
If I switch to a virtual terminal and kill the application in question from the
command line, then I may get keyboard input to an Xterm window back. However,
mouse-click is still dead; on occasion, after this, I have seen the pointer
change to what looks like a very very tiny Xterm with a faint grid on it
(probably about 40x60 pixels).
I have KDE-1.3-beta running.
This seems to happen most often when clicking on a dialogue button (e.g. "OK")
within a large application (such as WordPerfect-7 or Applixware) when
several windows are up (I typically have between 12 and 20 on various KDE
desktops of which I have 8 in all).
I hate to say it, but this leaves me with the sort of feeling that you get in
MS-Windows when your application freezes and you are told "Quit your application
and restart Windows" ... anyway, the effect is much the same! Since it happens
after 2-3 days, it's frequent enough to be very irritating. I had got used to
weeks of trouble-free uptime: it would be very nice to get it back.
With thanks for any suggestions,
Best wishes,
Ted.
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