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(1) X freeze
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Is there an elegant way of regaining control of the keyboard when a X app
crashes (see below) and leaves the X console frozen and the keyboard in an
unusable state in raw mode?
I have SAK (Secure Attention Key) mapped to Ctrl-Alt-PrintScreen, but even
this didn't work (when it usually does). I ended up remotely logging in,
but still couldn't bring sanity to the console. So I had little choice but
to uncerimoniously issue a reboot command :-(
Surely there is a better way of doing this?
(2) StarOffice 5 installation program crash
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I have (almost) given up trying to install SO5 (on my RH5.1/glibc6 box).
The step program starts up and unpacks things into a /tmp/sv* directory.
An error message comes up saying something about the window manager not
having any icon size parameters (or something similar). Then the backdrop
installation screen comes up, followed by an empty message/dialog window, a
new cursor shape. From that point, everything freezes solid.
I have tried using it with fvwm/fvwm2, afterstep, and twm - each time with
the same result. I start the X server with -auth, but this shouldn't be a
problem. (Or is this it? - I go about setting up xauth correctly in my
.xinirc / .Xsession / .Xclients files, and everything else works fine).
Has anyone else experienced this?
Any suggestions what could be causing this, and what I could do to prevent
it?
Many thanks...
PS:
Bummer about the installation/registration key stuff with SO5.
I would have liked to install it onto a network (and put it onto a CDROM)
for others to use, but this is not allowed with the licencing conditions.
It also requires individual registration at the time of downloading, then
(from what others have said) once again when it is up and running.
There is no way I am about to encourage a whole bunch of people here to
individually download a 66Mb file over an expensive overseas link just to
get it running on individual workstations... :(
Does anyone know if going through the download registration screens to
get an installation key, aborting the download, and using it on another
(local) copy works? If so, this might be one solution to avoiding
unnecessary network traffic (and expense).
I just hope WP8 isn't released under similar conditions.
Cheers
Tony
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Tony Nugent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Computer Support Officer Faculty of Science
University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba Oueensland Australia
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