[lgfaq] mouse recovery

Aivils Stoss Aivils.Stoss at unibanka.lv
Mon Sep 1 03:29:04 EDT 2003


>Occasionally I manage to freeze a game and am
>forced to kill it from another virtual console
>(e.g. for Enemy Territory I put a "kill -9" on
>the et.x86 process.)
>
>This works fine except that generally my mouse
>is no longer functional, and the cursor just sits
>parked in the upper left corner.  My only solution
>is to kill the X server and log in again, but
>I'm thinking there ought to be a more elegant
>solution.
>
>Have had this experience under Wolfenstein and
>Enemy Territory.
>Can't recall if also withUT2003.

i use same newbish method :) Game is UnrealTournament
4.36. "ut" allways restore mouse movement and videomode
switching. Seems we need for smarter guy which
creates mouse and videomode unlocker instead of "ut"

Aivils Stoss




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