Ron Halstead wrote: > I switched over to my Solaris 10 machine and ssh to the OpenSolaris box (sshd > works). I pkill firefox and switched back to OpenSolaris machine (kvm). > Firefox was gone and the focus was on xterm. Clicked on SDM but no joy. I am > able to run command in xterm. CAre must be taken not to run an app that > covers up xterm as then you can type, but are unable to see results. Xterm > has the focus but the other app covers it. Go figure. As soon as the download > completes, I will restart X, until the next time. >
This sounds like the window manager may have crashed, and is not restarting, do you have a core file in $HOME ? What window manager are you running, the default metacity or compiz ?, can you see window decorations around firefox or xterm windows ? if not that's always a sign the wm has died. Matt > In reading the old thread, there are quite o few others with this problem. It > has now started to manifest itself in my Solaris 10 U6 machine. It looks like > an inheritance from snv. > > Help please. > cc desktop, x windows > > --ron > -- ----------------- | www.iflaf.com | | www.hh-gs.com | -----------------
