Try "CTRL-ALT-F1" to get to a text console, and then "ALT-F7" to get back to get back to your desktop, and see if that clears anything up. On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, M. Fioretti wrote: > Hello, > > this is as embarassing as true. Please help > > I have a Red Hat 9 PC running the fluxbox window manager: right now I > have open: > > OpenOffice 1.0.2 > mutt > one xterm > > OOo is open on a just finished report which I absolutely HAVE to > convert to .doc format, spell check and email to a coworker before he > goes on the plane, ie in a few hours. > > The mouse just died on me. The cursor is on the far left of the root > window, and will move only vertically. I'm trying to clean it but it > won't listen. I can move from window to window with <ALT>+<TAB>, but I > can't access the the fluxbox menus, or, above all, the OOo ones. > > I'm going to smash the mouse with my feet if I can't spell check and > convert that file really soon. > > Is there any kind soul who would mail me some pure text version of all > the OOo keyboard shortcuts, and/or explain how to close the OOo file > dialog window (which also went partially off screen, so I can't even > see the buttons..., let alone move it) via keyboard? > > Same for fluxbox: how to move/resize/close windows via keyboard only. > > I'd use Google, if I only could start mozilla and push its buttons... > > TIA, > Tired and exhasperated Marco > > > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
