I managed to get it going and I do appreciate the tips. What happened is I was trying to refresh a Mozilla Firefox window and I found a way to give it focus and operate it from the keyboard. As soon as I asked for a refresh it cleared and all is fine!
Now what I found is that if I move the mouse over a tab and left clck and drag the mouse then I get the funny symbol. I have no idea what this symbol is for. But it also seems to put up what looks to be an icon of perhaps a printed page. The 2nd icon overlays the 1st and this morning when the problem occured the 2nd icon did not show up. Has anyone else seen the funny symbol? I mean the icon which is 1/2 a box with a + sign in it? Where would I find its meaning documented? On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:47:06PM -0700, Shawn 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
