On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Albert Jongkit Wong wrote:
> Is there a way to get the keyboard or mouse back from a frozen
> application? I've looked around and haven't been able to find any
> information about this. It would seem that when an Xclient freezes up and
> needs to be killed, there could be some way to get the keyboard and mouse
> to unlock -- perhaps with an optional keybinding or something like that?
> It would be very handy to not have to kill X to get the keyboard back when
> the only thing frozen is gaim or something similar...
A hotkey has been discussed in the past. It never went very far
because of the security implications. Such a feature would allow
you to defeat some screen lockers.
You can still VT switch during grabs, so you can switch to
another VT and kill the hung application to release the grab.
Mark.
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