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
frozen xorg cursor -> brutal poweroffs
Re: frozen xorg cursor -> brutal poweroffs
Press "Ctrl+Alt+Backspace"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
then type 'xwin' to restart X
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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...
No, it sounds like a gxine bug...Is it a severe a windows manager (Xorg) bug ?
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.It just cannot understand why a window manager should allow
a silly application to block the entire system (in XXIth century !)
Do you know a good gtkdialog program? Please post a link here
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