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- From: silbar@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov (Dick Silbar)
- Subject: re: My cursor went south -- SUMMARY
- Message-ID: <27JUL199208142606@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov>
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- Organization: LAMPF Data Analysis Center, Los Alamos, New Mexico
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:14:00 GMT
- Lines: 64
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- I got three helpful responses to my posting (although I wasn't really
- asking for help; by the time I posted I had cured the problem or the
- problem had cured itself.)
-
- -----
-
- Begin forwarded message (from Scott Hess):
-
-
- Logout out and login as exit to kill the windowserver. Or,
- perhaps it's good enough to logout/login.
-
- Latter didn't work; I presume the former is a weaker form of reboot,
- which did cure the mouse.
-
- I've had the
- problems with Courier as the window titles, and it's not
- something that "sticks", it just goes away for no reason I am
- certain of. But I suspect that it's something in the
- windowserver that gets wedged, which is why the
- exit-the-windowserver advice ...
-
- It did go away on the next (second) reboot, but then I had also found
- "dread" showed GLOBAL NXFont Courier, which I did a dwrite GLOBAL NXFont
- Helvetica before that. It may or may not have had any affect.
-
- -----
-
- Begin forwarded message (from Art Isbell):
-
- I've not lost my cursor (well, I have, but it's happened when
- something panicked the system :-), but I have seen the Courier font
- in Window titles, Menus, etc. The cure is to just restart the
- window server by typing "exit" and 2 returns in the Login Panel.
- Then when the Login Panel reappears, log in as usual and the fonts
- should be normal. I don't know why this occasionally happens, but
- it has been so rare that I just ignored it.
-
- Sounds consistent with Scott's experience.
-
- -----
-
- Begin forwarded message (from Soo Lee):
-
- - run Terminal
- - type "pft" followed by return.
- - type "showcursor" and hit return; if you don't get the cursor
- back, type "showcursor" a few more times.
- - then type "Control-D" to exit
-
- Interesting -- I didn't know about pft. Next time, if it ever happens again.
-
- I am afraid your "~/.NeXT" directory is munged by crash or some
- mishap like disk full. Copy fresh ".NeXT" to rebuild your own from
- somewhere others account. Before copy another .NeXT, it might work
- well if you remove ~/.NeXT/.NeXTdefaults.L.
-
- Well, no crash or disk-full or whatever. This is also a new approach (for
- me), but, as noted above, the problem already went away.
-
- Thanks, everybody.
-
- Dick Silbar
-
-