[NTLUG:Discuss] Stuck Windows - FIXED!

[Terry Henderson]

If it was KDE that crashed or was stopped for some reason, you
probably could have just restarted the Xserver with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

On 7/17/06, Michael Barnes <barnmichael at gmail.com> wrote:
> steve told me on 7/16/2006 8:46 AM:
> > Is it even running KDE/Gnome/Whatever?  This sounds like what
> > a basic X does when the window manager has crashed or something.
> >
> >> On 7/15/06, Michael Barnes <barnmichael at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Don't know what else to call it.  In my new position, I have inherited a
> >>> number of Linux machines, most running SuSE 9.2.  One of them has a
> >>> stuck window problem.  Each application you open comes up in a fixed
> >>> size window stuck in the upper left corner.  Subsequent windows are
> >>> directly over the first. You cannot drag or resize the windows.  By
> >>> right clicking on the window, you can get an option to "unclutter
> >>> Windows" or to tile them, but even that is a pain. I have found no
> >>> references yet on this in the Internet.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for any ideas on fixing the problem.
> >>> Michael
> steve gets the Kewpie doll!  This thing has been running forever, at
> least long before I came on the scene.  I waited for a break in the apps
> it runs and restarted it.  Everything came up fine.  BTW, it is running
> KDE.  Since it does have a couple apps that run all the time, it
> normally needs to be up, so I didn't want to just take it out of X and
> fiddle around.  A complete reboot was the quickest thing to try for me
> and it worked.
>
> Thanks for all the various comments.
>
> Michael
>
>
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