On Saturday 26 August 2006 10:59 am, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Saturday 26 August 2006 10:43, Paul Abrahams wrote:
I'm running KDE under SuSE 10.0. Sometimes when I've left the computer running for a while by itself and the screen saver comes on, I come back and discover that there's no mouse cursor. I don't see any pattern to when it happens and when it doesn't. So--
1. Is there anything I can do less drastic than Ctl-Alt-Bksp (which works) to get the cursor back? It clearly must be something that I can do from the keyboard alone.
2. What is likely to be causing the problem?
First, I'd check for a conflict between two screensavers. I seem to recall once having two installed and activated by default at the same time. Disabling, then uninstalling the redundant package solved my problem.
Also, if 'Ctl-Alt-Bksp' successfully crashes X, 'Ctl-Atl-Fn(1 thru6)' should get you to a console where you can login as root, then 'init 3' to drop to runlevel 3, 'Enter' to get your prompt back and 'init 5 && exit' to logout root and log back into your desktop.
I don't think I have two screensavers going. I'll try the "init 3" trick next time I lose the cursor, since I expect no trouble in getting to another console. Paul