I updated my laptop (Dell Lattitude E6500 8Gb RAM) to 12.1 x86_64.
From time to time i do something and suddenly while I have mouse movement, I can’t click or type anything. However Ctrl-alt-F2 works, I can get to command line, but I can’t get the GUI back top functional even if a Ctrl-alt-F7 back to it, and this usually causes me to lose my work. Any idea where to look the next time this intermittant behavior occurs? Or even better how to fix it?
thanx
Rob
On 05/16/2012 10:06 PM, rrawson wrote:
> Or even better how to fix it?
to fix it you have to know what is sucking the energy, to learn that:
as soon as you boot up, open top in a xterm, and leave it open so you
can look at it when you can’t click/type…and probably whatever is at
the top of the list is the trouble maker.
let us know what you learn…by the way: a better subject for this
problem would be something like:
mouse moves but can’t click or type in gnome 3
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dd
I will try that, but it doesn’t seem like something sucking up CPU, it seems like it simply stops recieving mouse click or keyboard events.
Alt-F2, if that brings up a small box, enter “r” in it, and hit enter. It reloads the desktop graphics, leaving your applications as they are.
> Alt-F2, if that brings up a small box, enter “r” in it, and hit enter.
> It reloads the desktop graphics, leaving your applications as they are.
i try that here and nothing happens…maybe you have created or
installed an executable/script named “r”??
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dd
Hi
Using GNOME3 now DD???
https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/CheatSheet
Typing ‘r’ or ‘restart’ in the Alt+F2 prompt will restart GNOME Shell.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64) Kernel 3.1.10-1.9-desktop
up 1 day 19:16, 3 users, load average: 0.11, 0.05, 0.05
CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU
On 05/19/2012 11:53 PM, malcolmlewis wrote:
> Using GNOME3 now DD???
[slaps forehead] AH! (read the ‘r’ how-to in the Knurpht post, looked
down in his sig line and saw “KDE 4.7” and thought “NEAT” new thing to
learn!! without reading the thread subject OR seeing his sig ALSO
contained “+ GNOME 3”…my bad!)
so, i still think it is a cool new thing…but, in GNOME is ‘r’ a binary
or script? and, does it run with user perms, and without logging out
then in, or ???
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dd
On Sun, 20 May 2012 05:18:15 +0000, dd wrote:
> On 05/19/2012 11:53 PM, malcolmlewis wrote:
>> Using GNOME3 now DD???
>
> [slaps forehead] AH! (read the ‘r’ how-to in the Knurpht post, looked
> down in his sig line and saw “KDE 4.7” and thought “NEAT” new thing to
> learn!! without reading the thread subject OR seeing his sig ALSO
> contained “+ GNOME 3”…my bad!)
>
> so, i still think it is a cool new thing…but, in GNOME is ‘r’ a binary
> or script? and, does it run with user perms, and without logging out
> then in, or ???
It’s built in to GNOME3. As is “lg”, which is for “looking glass”, a
GNOME3 debugger of sorts. 
Jim
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On 05/20/2012 07:42 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> It’s built in to GNOME3.
guess i’m gonna have to try 3…
(GNOME was the Red Hat default back on Day One.)
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dd
So I spent my day working with a client today, presenting an IDM solution on a projector, and this lockup happened four times in 10 hours. The last time I tried the alt-f2 trick. First, before I locked up, I tried that and it responded… but when I locked up, alt-f2 got nowhere. And Ctrl-alt-F2 works, I can bounce to a text session. So from that text window can I invoke the reset that the alt-f2 does?