Geoff, The force is strong with you :) Thanks that worked xfce-screensaver was active but I was not seeing the screen-saver
Appreciate your help Tom Smyth On Sat, 10 Apr 2021 at 22:48, gwes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 4/10/21 5:22 PM, Tom Smyth wrote: > > Hello, > > > > 1) issue does not occur with fvwm or with chrome running in fvwm > > > > so the issue seems to be confined to xfce, and I was running just 1 > > xfce terminal session > > 2) (so the issue is not related to chromium) > > > > Thanks > > > > > > O > > -- > > Kindest regards, > > Tom Smyth. > > > Hi Tom, > Some application that you can't see is grabbing focus and not letting go. > > On another OS using xfce (XUbuntu) the screensaver sometimes causes > something > extremely similar. Mouse cursor moves but nothing else responds. > The workaround is to use control-alt-F1 to get a > plain console and ps -ax | grep screen then doas kill <screensaverpid>. > > If it's not a screensaver it's almost always a second browser copy. > I just find likely greedy candidates in the ps and kill until the > problem goes away. > > If the X server won't let you use control-alt-Fx to change screens you'll > have to ssh in. > > Geoff Steckel -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth.
