On 12 May 2001 16:15:35 -0700, schaecsn wrote:
>
> when I press the pulldown menu of netscape the menu shows up as
> expected, but once in a month netscape refuses to continue, it simply
> stalls. When showing up the pulldown menu the mouse pointer changes its
> shape, e.g. from an "X" to an arrow pointing north-east. A further
> consequence of this is I can't focus any other windows anymore. Netscape
> (or netscape's pull down menu) doesn't release the focus.
>
> So I switch back to a virtual console via CTRL-ALT-F1 and kill netscape
> with "pkill -9 netscape". switiching back to X reveals that netscape is
> really dead but unfortunately the mouse is still an arrow pointing
> north-east and thus I can't focus any other windows leaving X-windows in
> an unusable state. now i have to kill x-windows from a virtual console
> and start it, again ;-(
Yes, I saw this Netscape's bug too. It leaves cursor grabbed.
> I hope that there is a way to restart fvwm from the console?
> Maybe there are some other suggestions?
You may send SIGUSR1 to fvwm2 process in 2.2.x and 2.3.x versions:
pkill -USR1 fvwm2
Another possible solution is to run FvwmCommandS and then execute from
the command line "FvwmCommand Restart".
But I am not sure whether restarting of FVWM solves this problem.
Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Fri May 18 2001 - 13:30:33 BST