Sommetimes, for no apparent reason, my mouse cursor will become four arrows and suddenly I cannot do anything with my desktop. I can move the cursor and that is it. Clicking has no effect. cnrtl-alt-F6 gave me another virtual console from which I could post this. Other rebooting, how do I fix this? I'm running xfce on 6.2. -- Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "On Monday, I'm gonna have to tell my kindergarten class, whom I teach not to run with scissors, that my fiance ran me through with a broadsword." -- Lily
On Sun, 8 Sep 2013, Michael Hennebry wrote:> Sommetimes, for no apparent reason, my mouse cursor will become > four arrows and suddenly I cannot do anything with my desktop. > I can move the cursor and that is it. > Clicking has no effect. > cnrtl-alt-F6 gave me another virtual console from which I could post this. > Other rebooting, how do I fix this? > I'm running xfce on 6.2.I've tried to run another X server, but it doesn't seem to take. Do I need to do it as root? I've tried Xorg and X with :1 and tty2, but nothing shows up. -- Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "On Monday, I'm gonna have to tell my kindergarten class, whom I teach not to run with scissors, that my fiance ran me through with a broadsword." -- Lily
On 09/08/2013 12:31 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:> Sommetimes, for no apparent reason, my mouse cursor will become > four arrows and suddenly I cannot do anything with my desktop. > I can move the cursor and that is it. > Clicking has no effect.Have you tried pressing the [ESC] key? Sounds like you somehow got into "Move" mode. -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it.