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
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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
