While using gnome and Enlightenment and I hold down the left and right mouse button at the same time while the mouse cursor is over the root X-Window/desktop with a three button mouse, it totally hangs my entire gnome session. The mouse cursor still moves, but the mouse buttons and keyboard keys do not function at all. The kernel is still up as I can CTRL-ALT-F1 to a console screen and kill the entire gnome session, but I lose all of my gnome-terminals, development windows, etc. every time it happens! I have verified this problem on both RedHat v6.2 and v6.1 on different peoples machines [ who I'm very popular with right now ;-( ]. Can you please fix this as soon as possible as Unix shouldn't require 'virtually rebooting' even though I know that with Microsoft operating systems this type of behavior is expected.
Possibly a stuck grab from gmc or from Enlightenment; probably killing one of those will be sufficient, rather than killing your whole session. If you can try that and tell us whether killing those solves the problem (and which one) it would be helpful.
Sorry for the delay, I'm buried at work and I couldn't use my machine as a guinnea pig for RedHat bug testing. You should be able to verify and test this bug on your own RedHat v6.1 or RedHat v6.2 machine. I tried 'kill pid' and 'kill -HUP pid' on the enlightenment process and it didn't fix the problem at all. Next I did a 'kill pid' on the gmc process and it did sort of fix the problem in that I could type again into one of my gnome-terminals but there were no title bars or border on any of my gnome-terminals so I still needed to wack my entire gnome session so that I could start working again. Any ideas? The really strange thing is that the problem appears to be exactly when you release the mouse buttons after selecting any of the following menu items: New Terminal Directory URL Link Launcher Arrange Icons Create New Window Rescan Desktop Directory Rescan Devices Recreate Default Icons Configure Background Image By the way, is there any way to 'Restart' the window manager? I know on my linux Slackware machine at home that is one of the menu options. One other unrelated question, is there any way to grab a part of the X-windows graphical display say if you were trying to create some documentation to tell a user how to use your application? Thanks, Todd
OK, thanks for the info, apparently this is a gmc bug caused by a stuck grab from gmc. It's pretty likely to be fixed in newer versions of Red Hat Linux, let's see if Jonathan knows. I think there's a way to restart Enlightenment but I don't know it offhand. Lots of apps do screenshots, e.g. ee or gimp.
Thanks for the information, but I was kind of hoping to avoid totally re-installing the entire RedHat distribution on my machine as I have quite a few hundred things setup and working on my development system right now and the problem appears to be pretty specific. When you say the problem is a 'stuck grab', does that also apply to the pop-up menu you get that I described above when you press the left and right mouse buttons when the cursor is over the root X-window/desktop? I'm not sure what you mean by a 'stuck grab'. I was really surprised that the bug occurs on that pop-up menu as I would think that most GUI menus get heavily used and should be thoroughly tested. Please let me know what 'Jonathan knows' as you mentioned above. Thanks, Todd
gmc is being deprecated in favor of nautilus