Re: Clicks on desktop not recognised any more

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Bob Hepple <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Rainer M Krug <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> from time to time, after working for some time, none of the
>> mouseclicks on the desktop are recognized any more.
>> Everything else is still working.
>>
>> The only way of getting them back is to kill the X-Server via
>> CTRL-ALT-BKSPACE
>>
>> Is there any other way, i.e. via xterm, to quit fluxbox gracefully or
>> to get the desktop mouseclicks back?
>>
>>  Any ideas what might be causing this?
>>
>> Setup is laptop with second monitor, two x-servers, conky on laptop
>> screen, no changes recently to the configuration.
>
> Hello,
>
> Rather than nuke X, maybe just re-starting fluxbox would suffice. At least
> that's a better workaround until you solve the real problem.
> I have this in ~/.fluxbox/keys:
>
> Control Mod1 Delete  :MacroCmd {Restart} {ExecCommand fbsetbg -l}

Thanks a lot - that is something I was thinking about but did not
follow through.

Rainer

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> Bob
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