CTRL-ALT-F1 to get the console, and then ALT-F7 to get back to the GUI usually does it for me. On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Nigel Simpson wrote: > My RH 9 system is connected to a KVM switch which I use to switch > between multiple systems. The works well for me except for a new > behavior that seems to have happened since I upgraded from RH 8. > > Sometimes when I switch from another system to my RH 9 system my mouse > goes haywire. It behaves as if one or more mouse buttons are pressed > down and it has an affinity with the bottom left hand corner of the > desktop. This of course leads to applications getting started randomly > as items in the desktop menu are auto-clicked, the panel gets dragged > around etc. Other times, the mouse is totally frozen. I can ALT-TAB > around the desktop and TAB inside applications but the only way to > restore mouse sanity is to CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to restart the X server. > I'd like to figure out a way to regain mouse sanity, perhaps by entering > a command in a terminal. Is there anything I can do short of tossing out > my KVM ? Unplugging and re-connecting the mouse doesn't help either. > > Thanks ! > > Nigel > -- 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
