Help me, please im Stupid!

English Install/Boot/Login
#1

Hello,

I installed OpenSuse11 on my Dell 510m (Centrino-1,6Ghz-1,5GB,1400x1050,IntelGMA)

After my first Login, I just connected to the W-Lan and set some few hotkeys with windows-key. f.e. Windows-R for Terminal.

I pressed win-r and get in an mode where I can’t leave.

The Mode:
First it was only a zoom, i could “scroll” with moving mouse to the edges. Now the scrolling also don’t works anymore. So I only see an quarter of my whole sreen resolution. I can’t select the tab/app-bar on floor.
The Add-On to this fantastic state is, that my mouse is not clicking/highlighting where the pointer is.

How can I get back to a normal state.

Thank you in advance for you help.

Sebastian Braun
from Freiburg, Germany

#2

Don’t really have a solution for you. Your problem is very strange. Are you using KDE or Gnome?
Try checking the defined keyboard shortcuts and see if your “Win+R” is conflicting with something.

The zoom with scroll suggests a change in desktop resolution, were you virtual desktop is bigger than the resolution of the display. But the mouse not clicking were it points makes me think off graphic cards issues.

#3

Sorry, I forgot:
I’m using Gnome.
After re-login the problem was solved, but one time i get back to it. That time the scrolling was enabled. I think it have to be an hotkey-combination to get to normal state. Somebody knows?

Now i have another problem:
I wanted to test the turn modes of screen and restarted. Now - after login - I see only the mousepointer and an green desktop background and nothing else loads/works. Mouse moves, but theres no interaction - no clicks, no ctrl-alt-del - nothing - Only Hard-Power-Off leaves.

#4

>:(
Now I’ve executed the automatic repair, but the problem isn’t solved.

Have somebody any idea how to fix?

Thank you in advance.
S.B.

#5

Try creating another user and see it you have the same problem press CTRL ALT and F3 to get to the console, login as root and use the useradd to create another user (see if its a profile issue). If that doesnt work try sax2 from the command line and recreate your configuration. If you need to restart the desktop use rcxdm stop and rcxdm start (this need t be run as root as well).

#6

Thank you!
I’ve tried to login using root. It works fine. (Full Desktop loads, everything works)

But using my normal username:
Using sax2 don’t change anything, the mouse is turned (90°) and desktop is green, nothing more loads/works.

Can I copy root-config to the user config? How I can do this? I’m very fresh in Linux.
Or better, how can I fully reset the user-desktop-config?

Thank you in advance.
S.B.

#7

semabra wrote:

>
> Thank you!
> I’ve tried to login using root. It works fine. (Full Desktop loads,
> everything works)
>
> But using my normal username:
> Using sax2 don’t change anything, the mouse is turned (90°) and desktop
> is green, nothing more loads/works.
>
> Can I copy root-config to the user config? How I can do this? I’m very
> fresh in Linux.
> Or better, how can I fully reset the user-desktop-config?
>
> Thank you in advance.
> S.B.
>
>
Hello Semabra,

You should try to create as root a new user and see whether your problems
still exists with this new user.

Regards,

Frans Leerink

#8

> I’ve tried to login using root. It works fine. (Full Desktop loads,
> everything works)
>
> But using my normal username:

i learned about how to solve that a long time ago, see:
http://texan.dk/temp/SUSEsignInROOT.html

well, not actually SOLVE it, just keep it from happening again, after
you get all the permissions correct, again…

sorry it is not finished…

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