I'm a bit miffed at Xfree86 lately. For some unknown reason, my work computer completely freezes every time I switch to a text terminal for x-windows. This is very annoying, especially since it's the kind of problem that's not easily solved. I could do it a week ago, so what changed? Perhaps it's just time for a complete computer shutdown and reboot.
A possible factor might be the desktop-switcher I have, that I use to switch between Windows and Linux. Sometimes the mouse gets completely messed up when switching back to Linux. This causes a bunch of annoyances, since the symptom of this is my mouse moving and clicking randomly, like some hyperactive two-year-old has taken control of your mouse. As you can imagine, that's a great way to screw up your desktop. The solution for this was for me to switch to text terminal (Ctrl-Alt-f1) and switch back to x-windows (Ctrl-Alt-f7). That reset the mouse nicely. Now I can't do that, so I'm really screwed.
Posted by ahyatt at May 22, 2003 11:21 AM