ramfree17 Posted June 20, 2003 Report Share Posted June 20, 2003 occassionally my cursor will lock out and i resort to killing fluxbox and restarting it. not a pleasant proposition if i have lots of windows open. i have been poking around on the menu file and it seems the restart option is an internal command. anybody know how i can use it in a commandline to force flux to restart itself? thanks. ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarah31 Posted June 20, 2003 Report Share Posted June 20, 2003 well restart is an option in the menu so i would take a look at the menu file for the command. more important though is that you should not have cursor lock like that...even occasionally. i would do a little investigation such as trying some other wm and if it occurs even with those or a DE i would say it is a small symtom of what could eventually be a larger problem. (hardware likely) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted June 20, 2003 Report Share Posted June 20, 2003 I agree with sarah, it could be a deeper problem, I don't believe it is related directly with fluxbox. To answer your question, AFAIK a command to restart fluxbox apart of the menu one doesn't exist, at least in my fluxbox version (0.1.10). On their home page you can read that in the soon-to-come versions, they are planning to add the possibilty of creating a key binding for 'restart'. But that feature isn't available at present time :( have you thought in the possibility of restarting the mouse controller (probably "imwheel") instead of restarting the X server? (maybe restarting just the mouse will save you from having to restart everything, I'm not sure if that can be done at all) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
static Posted June 20, 2003 Report Share Posted June 20, 2003 Instead of killing flux, why not ctrl-alt-backspace to kill X, then re-login into flux? 'Cause your sorta doing that anyway aren't you? Anyway, from the command line I thought it was exec fluxbox... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted June 20, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2003 i agree that this might be something deeper so ill try using openbox (scape said its much better so ill give it a whirl), but flux has already spoiled me. :#: right now im looking for a short term solution. i dont think i have imwheel installed since i only have a standard 2-button mouse. static, i am using ctrl+alt+backspace to kill flux. i just wish you can restart flux from an existing terminal inside it. like what you said, the menu is the only place where that command is found. :( ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezroller Posted June 21, 2003 Report Share Posted June 21, 2003 isn't it sopmething like startx :--fluxbox i know its something like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted June 21, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2003 doesnt that start a new instance? when i execute that it complains that a session is already running and if im really sure i need to delete the lockfile. maybe when i dont have anything else to do ill try following it. :#: anyway, i tried icewm and also got the mouse lockup. one curious thing is that when i booted my machine tonight i was greeted by a messagebox saying my hardware has changed, mouse was removed, psaux was added and i was given the opportunity to configure my mouse device. is my mouse failing? it only locks on the wm sessions but when i drop down to cli i can move it the cursor(gpm). thanks! ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted June 22, 2003 Report Share Posted June 22, 2003 I had endless problems with my mouse until I disable gpm ... then I never had a problem with the mouse in X ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted June 22, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2003 thanks. ill take that into consideration. but heeding the advice of sarah and garu, i bought a generic ps2 mouse to replace my old one (its getting kludgy anyway) and hope it really is the mouse only. i still havent encountered lockups. one thing i realize is lockups only happen when im compiling+updating updates via rsync+updating cvs. maybe im doing too many things at once? :#: anyway, consider gpm dead. ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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