James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
Ralph wrote:
..
I knew the freeze had something to do with dragging an icon
from a gnome panel. Yet, ps wasn't showing anything newer
than Mozilla on that X. So I was certain it had to do with
something that was already running before Mozilla.
I pulled several blocks before I came down to the one I
thought it would be. I have three gnome panels. And three
gnome panels are listed in ps:
rafael 3132 1 3132 0 3 May10 ? Ssl 0:23
gnome-panel --sm-client-id default2rafael 3132 1 3163
0 3 May10 ? Ssl 0:01 gnome-panel --sm-client-id
default2rafael 3132 1 3606 0 3 May10 ? Ssl
0:00 gnome-panel --sm-client-id default2
I just had no idea which one was freezing it up. And what I
read about gnome panels was that at least one was necessary.
If it turned out to be the top one that was freezing it, then
I would have been screwed I think (unless killing it would
automatically restart it).
Well, I killed the bottom one, and VIOLA!!! X on F7 is now
completely responsive again. And what's more, it appears that
all the things that I killed came back.
The best part is that the email I was composing is still there
and ..., now it is saved.
..
I am SOOOOO stoked right now! Unbelievable!!!
(I just *knew* that Mozilla was not hung!)
(I guess sometimes it just takes a liberal mix of bravado and
naivete.)
Congratulations! Your first suspicions/inclinations seem to have been
right-on.
It may have been not a panel icon being dragged, but the panel itself.
<I think>
Regards,
..jim
Well, it happened again a short time later (this time with an open
desktop underneath, hence, title bar of whatever program had nothing to
do with it). It seems that if it is lagging behind for whatever reason
when I'm perfoming a drag, it freezes in the drag. If I slow down, and
allow it to keep up, it doesn't seem to have a problem.
Anyway, this time, I had nothing unsaved, so I went straight for the
jugular, "kill PID_of_gnome-panel". Presto!!! (Which reminds me, I
forgot to log out of console F6 this time. PID was 20523 this time.
:-) )
Isn't Linux nice?!?
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