[ILUG] Reset mouse in X?

[Conor Daly]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 12:40:57PM -0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Kenn Humborg thought:
> > Ideas?
> > 
> > I'm using a KVM switch to share the mouse between different machines and
> > in X, when I switch away and then back, the mouse is gone.  Is there any
> > way to have X reset the mouse without doing a <CTRL><ALT><BACKSPACE>?
> > Unpluging and repluging the mouse doesn't work but then, I didn't expect
> > it to...
> 
> Have you tried switch to a text-mode console and then back to
> X?
Mouse goes nuts.

> Or, if gpm is feeding the mouse movements to X, then try restarting
> gpm.
similarly.

> Or get a smarter KVM switch :-)
"Cheaper" is the operative word here.
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Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>

Domestic Sysadmin :-)