Re: mouse freezing in X Windows?

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

David Piniella wrote:

> I'm running a woody unstable box, GUI is X-Windows with XFCE4; my 
> mouse keeps freezing in x-windows. I can use the keyboard to do stuff 
> in xfce (run commands, tab through options, type in an xterm, etc) and 
> if I go to another console (e.g., alt-F2,)  and then go back to 
> X-windows (alt-F7) I can use the mouse again...but within a minute or 
> two it'll freeze again.
>
> I've tried "nice X -a -20" to renice the X mouse process but I get an 
> error that the process is already running on :0 ...I don't want to 
> respawn the server...
>
> so my questions are:
> why is my mouse freezing (or how can I find out myself?)
> and
> can I renice a running process? if so, how?
Are you running gpm? If so, is gpm.conf configured to match 
XF86Config-4? Perhaps try restarting gpm without shelling out to another 
console when the mouse freezes to see what effect that has.

Perhaps try a different wm for a few minutes to see if the problem 
occurs there.

Perhaps try a different user for a few minutes to see if the problem 
occurs there.

--
Kent