[ale] Mouse/X Windows question

[Dave Brooks]

Sounds like you're starting xdm by default.  As long as your keyboard
still works, hit CTRL-ALT-F1 to escape to tty1.  (Alternatively, hitting
CTRL-ALT-F2 escapes to tty2, CTRL-ALT-F3 to tty3, etc etc.  From the
console, ALT-F7 returns to X by default)

that order; killing X first will just cause xdm to respawn it again. 
After these processees are killed, you can reconfigure XFree86 to behave
as you want it to, mouse and all.

Hope this helps.

Dave Brooks
dbrooks at comstar.net



Justin Russell wrote:
> 
> I was playing around with my XConfig file last night and somehow managed to really mess up my mouse under X Windows.
> 
> I am running RedHat 6 and Gnome.  My setup is the default which auto-boots X when I boot my machine.
> 
> However, without my mouse I have no control.  Is it possible for force the boot into single-user/shell mode instead of autobooting X?
> 
> Alternatively, is there a way to control the mouse cursor without using the mouse?  (Yes I tried banging on keys, heh)
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Justin
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