frozen xorg cursor -> brutal poweroffs

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porte64
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frozen xorg cursor -> brutal poweroffs

#1 Post by porte64 »

When some applications go crazy (e.g. asking gxine to open
unsupported files like FLV/h264 videos), there seems to be
no way to regain control over puppy : the cursor merely freezes
(and no keyboard control either), forcing users to brutally
power off the system.

Is it a severe a windows manager (Xorg) bug ?

It just cannot understand why a window manager should allow
a silly application to block the entire system (in XXIth century !)

BTW i suggest to replace xine with any stable
media player, like videolan or mplayer.

Phil

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sc0ttman
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Re: frozen xorg cursor -> brutal poweroffs

#2 Post by sc0ttman »

porte64 wrote:When some applications go crazy (e.g. asking gxine to open
unsupported files like FLV/h264 videos), there seems to be
no way to regain control over puppy : the cursor merely freezes
(and no keyboard control either), forcing users to brutally
power off the system.

Is it a severe a windows manager (Xorg) bug ?

It just cannot understand why a window manager should allow
a silly application to block the entire system (in XXIth century !)

BTW i suggest to replace xine with any stable
media player, like videolan or mplayer.

Phil
Press "Ctrl+Alt+Backspace"

then type 'xwin' to restart X
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disciple
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#3 Post by disciple »

Or you might be able to do Ctrl-Alt-F2 to switch virtual terminals, login (user=root password=woofwoof), and kill the offending program from the command line, then switch back with Ctrl-Alt-F3...
Is it a severe a windows manager (Xorg) bug ?
No, it sounds like a gxine bug...
It just cannot understand why a window manager should allow
a silly application to block the entire system (in XXIth century !)
I don't think it has anything to do with the window manager... maybe Xorg should be able to prevent it... I don't know whether that would be feasible.
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paulhomebus
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#4 Post by paulhomebus »

I had the same problem when running gmplayer....
only way I could get control back was Kill -9 (whatever JWM's id was)

I think this will/ought be fixed in Lupu 5.1

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