Although this doesn't really solve your problem, you can break out of such a bad situation more simply than by rebooting. Type Control-Alt-F1 to get to a linux console login; log in as yourself and then kill the vncviewer process (for example by typing killall vncviewer). Then Control-Alt-F7 will get you back to your X desktop.
Your linux box has at least 7 virtual consoles (accessed via F1 through F7) each of which can support a console login or a graphical desktop. alex On 9/9/06, John Lien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I did a serach on the list, and didn't find anything about this so I hope > that someone here can assist me with my problem. I think I am able to > replicate the problem in fact. > > I have a Fedora Core 5 box (an old laptop) running Gnome. that I use to > VNC to a headless Win2k3 server that I have to do winblows stuff. I am > using the vncviewer that comes with FC5. I have my screensaver set to kick > on after 10 minutes of inactivity on both the windows and Gnome. Please > note that I also run the vncviewer in fullscreen mode most of the time, and > then F8 to go to GAIM while chatting with friends. > > I have noticed that when I walk away from the computer and come back and > this only happens if I leave my VNCViewer on fullscreen mode, my screensaver > on the windows box has kicked in but the one on Gnome doesnt seem to have > (perhaps it has, but doesn't know how to handle the VNCVIEWER being > fullscreen). So I move my mouse, I get the "CTRL-ALT-DEL" window on the > Winblows box and I click F8 to get the menu, the menu comes up but I cannot > click anything. > > From this point on, my mouse is on the fritz and I can move the mouse > around, but I cannot actually click on anything. It wont interact with > Gnome at all, so effectively I am stuck in the VNC session without any means > of getting out of it, or getting into the windows box. I also cannot move > things around in Windows when this happens. > > Anyone have any ideas as to what this could be? How I can get out of it > other than ensuring I get out of full screen mode before realizing oh no, I > haven't typed for 10 minutes and my box is locked up again. Effectively I > have to exit Gnome and go back in for it to fix itself. > > Any help is appreciated! > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [email protected] > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
