every so often, i get weird cursor focus problems

[Dominik Danter]

Maybe its the Windowmanager. When this happens try rightclicking the Desktop
--> Change Desktop Background --> Visual Settings and Change your Settings
there. You can revert to your previous setting afterwards.

Try "killall metacity" to provoke this behavior on purpose. Needless to say
that you should save your important work first.

On 17 September 2010 20:18, J <dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com> wrote:muiae

> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 14:09, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>
> wrote:
> >  i had to eventually power cycle the last few times but today,
> > magically, things went back to working properly.  no idea if it was
> > anything i did.
>
> I've had this happen a few times... its like the UI just locks up... I
> re-enabled CTRL-ALT-BKSP and just kill X (you can also switch to a
> terminal and do it manually)...
>
> I've not had it happen as often as it used to, but it still does
> happen on occasion, and just killing X (ctrl-alt-bksp kills/restarts
> and brings you back to GDM) is all I need. No reboot necessary.
>
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