[sf-lug] Simple Question

[jim stockford]

    If your mouse pointer is captured in a process window,
the only thing I can think of is try  CTL-ALT-F2 (or F3,4,5)
to get a console window that presents a command-line
shell prompt.
    Use the  ps aux | less  command and try to identify the
process number (PID) of the process that's grabbing
your mouse, then use the  kill -15 <PID>  command,
where PID is the process number of the offending
process. If that doesn't work, then use the  kill -9 <PID>
command and see what happens. If that doesn't work,
try the  shutdown -r now  command to reboot. if that
doesn't work, uh oh: cut the power and file a bug with
the kernel developers.

    NOTE: linux kernel developers are begging users to
run linux on as many different machines as possible
and to file bug reports at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/lkml/reporting-bugs.html
    you can help the linux kernel developers by doing
so and reporting any failures (if it boots, it works,
according to Andrew Morton, linux head honcho).

    NUTHER_NOTE: almost certainly this problem is not
a kernel problem but a problem with the process and/or
its use of the GUI (window manager, most likely).

    I can't wait to see responses.
jim


On Nov 16, 2007, at 10:23 AM, Blake Haggerty wrote:

> This may be the dumbest question I will ever ask.. probably not I 
> forsee many more dumb questions, but anyway, So last night I was 
> playing a game called Urban Terror when I run the game it takes over 
> the entire screen. I will play for 30 mins or so shoot a bunch of 
> stuff etc. and then the server in the game has an error and it kicks 
> me out to my desktop but the game is still running  in a small window. 
> My mouse is still controlling the window inside the game only and I 
> cant click on anything outside of the game. (like desktop, toolbar, 
> start...etc) Is there a command to get my mouse out of this window ? 
> or is there a command I can hit to just kill the open program? Is 
> there a command I can hit to open all my running processes and then 
> select the game to kill it?
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