You could also try ctrl - alt - backspace. That should restart KDR
Darcy Brodie On 2013-01-24, at 12:47 PM, Shawn <[email protected]> wrote: > Is the keyboard still working? If so, you can use a console window to > reboot. Two ways to get there: > > 1. ALT-F2, type in "Konsole" followed by the Enter key. > 2. Tap CTRL-ALT-F1 twice in quick succession. > > The second method completely removes the graphical environment from the > equation. (You can return to the graphical environment by using ALT-F7.) > > Once you are at a command prompt, you can enter the command > "sudo restart" or "sudo halt". > > It sounds like your system suffered a graphics glitch. After rebooting you > should be fine. IF you have already rebooted and you are getting this > problem still then you have a different issue. In that case I would > recommend trying to reset the graphical environment. You can do that by > getting to a command prompt (use the second option above, in this case) and > then entering the command > "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg", which should do the trick. > > If all of that still doesn't work, you should verify it is a system wide > problem, or a user specific problem (assuming you have multiple users on the > system). If you log in as a different user, does the problem persist? If > not, then your specific user settings are suspect. If you rename your > settings directory you'll get a pristine environment, but you'll looks your > specific preferences/configurations, etc. Log into a command prompt - at > your usual login prompt do the CTRL-ALT-F1 thing to get to a prompt without > logging into the graphical environment. Login and then enter the following > > sudo mv /home/USERNAME/.kde /home/USERNAME/.kde-original > > Once you have that done, return to the graphical login (ALT-F7) and login > normally. If we are lucky the problem will have gone away. If so, you can > then copy over any needed settings from the original directory one at a time. > If the problem STILL persists, I would log out and restore the original > directory (reverse the order of the directories with the command above) - the > problem is somewhere else. > > Beyond that, I'm not sure of any specific/other steps you can try. But I > hope this solves the problem for you. > > Shawn > > On 13-01-24 09:31 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> I'm running KDE on debian. Suddenly the mouse pointer changed to a 1/2 a >> box with a "+" in it. I've never seen this before. It will no longer >> change the window focus. I cannot use it to select anything in the kicker. >> The mouse buttons no longer do anything. I've tried using ctrl, shift, alt >> ESC with the mouse and it will not clear. >> >> >> Does anyone know how to revert the mouse to normal operation? Does anyone >> know how the function changed or what that 1/2 box and + sign mean? >> >> >> If it means anything the sides look like a right angle in the upper left >> hand corner. >> >> Also with the lack of functionality I can't even restart X >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
