Re: 6.9 Current amd64 xfce seems to freeze and not respond to mouse clicks or keystrokes

Geoff,
The force is strong with you :)

Thanks that worked xfce-screensaver was active but I was not seeing
the screen-saver

Appreciate your help

Tom Smyth

On Sat, 10 Apr 2021 at 22:48, gwes <gwes@oat.com> wrote:
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> On 4/10/21 5:22 PM, Tom Smyth wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > 1) issue does not occur with fvwm or with chrome running in fvwm
> >
> > so the issue seems to be confined to xfce, and I was running just 1
> > xfce terminal session
> > 2) (so the issue is not related to chromium)
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > O
> > --
> > Kindest regards,
> > Tom Smyth.
> >
> Hi Tom,
> Some application that you can't see is grabbing focus and not letting go.
>
> On another OS using xfce (XUbuntu) the screensaver sometimes causes
> something
> extremely similar. Mouse cursor moves but nothing else responds.
> The workaround is to use control-alt-F1 to get a
> plain console and ps -ax | grep screen then doas kill <screensaverpid>.
>
> If it's not a screensaver it's almost always a second browser copy.
> I just find likely greedy candidates in the ps and kill until the
> problem goes away.
>
> If the X server won't let you use control-alt-Fx to change screens you'll
> have to ssh in.
>
> Geoff Steckel



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Kindest regards,
Tom Smyth.