Re: Clicks on desktop not recognised any more

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Rainer M Krug <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

The shortcut works when I can still use the right-click-on-desktop of
the mouse, but when the problem occurs, none of the keyboard shortcuts
for Fluxbox are working any more.

Any idea how I can figure out what is causing this? Can I restart
fluxbox from a terminal?

Rainer

PS: this time it happened after closing emacs.

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> Rainer
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>> Bob
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> Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation
> Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)
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> Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
> Faculty of Science
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-- 
Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation
Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Faculty of Science
Natural Sciences Building
Private Bag X1
University of Stellenbosch
Matieland 7602
South Africa

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