Re: FVWM: restarting fvwm

From: Perry Hutchison <phutchis_at_beaverton.windriver.com>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 13:27:31 -0700 (PDT)

> > 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've seen this also, although with a different app (not Netscape).

Granted a well-behaved app shouldn't lock up to the point of needing
kill -9 at any point, much less with the cursor grabbed; nevertheless
it seems like a bug somewhere (X server? Window Manager?) to allow
the cursor to remain grabbed after the window that grabbed it has
been destroyed. Is there any prospect of fixing it, or does this
turn out to be one of those fundamental X problems that's not easily
fixed?
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