Re: Reboot only w/ mouse.
heh. i've had this happen.
if you're luck enough to have the letters "s", "u", either "h", "a", "l",
"t" or "r", "e", "b", "o", t" and all the letters in your root password,
you can cut and paste your way into a reboot. this has happened to me
before, and worked.
can you ssh into your machine? that would be easiest of all.
pete
On Thu 15 Mar 01, 3:14 PM, Mathieu, Barry said:
> Trouble.
>
> My keyboard is not responding (poof - dead), even the LED indicator for caps
> lock doesn't
> illuminate. I have X running, w/ ICEWM. There is a mouse menu that allows
> reboot, but
> only works if logged-in as root, which I am not. And, I am a bit of a Linux
> newbie.
>
> Is there anyway to reboot my machine simply by using the mouse? Is there
> any way
> to re-establish communication with the keyboard w/ only a mouse? Any ideas?
> I really don't want to push that power button.
>
> Sigh,
> Barry
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