[Bug 70075] Re: mouse issue screensaver + rdesktop

[Marty Lucich]

I have just recovered from this!  You don't have to kill off your session.
I used a terminal window that had focus on that desktop and killed the
only gnome-screensaver I saw running; then ran a new gnome-screensaver.
Then I went out for coffee.  When I got back I had forgotten what I
was doing and absentmindedly moved the mouse to make the screen saver
go away and then I noticed that the desktop was responding to mouse
button events again.  The top and bottom panels still did not un-hide
so I right clicked on the little edge that shows and unchecked auto-hide
which made the top panel pop out.  I then re-checked the auto-hide
button and now both the top and bottom panels are working properly even
though I didn't mess with the bottom one.

If you aren't lucky enough to have focus in a terminal window you could
try to <CTRL><ALT><F2> to a text console and "killall gnome-screensaver"
and "gnome-screensaver --display :1" to see if that helps.  [Assuming you
are on a single user workstation and your malfunctioning desktop is the
first one logged in.]

This is another demonstration of why coffee (or tea) is so important
when working with computers.

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mouse issue screensaver + rdesktop
https://launchpad.net/bugs/70075