[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#887768: Steps to reproduce mouse freeze

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Susan Cragin <susancragin at earthlink.net> [2018-12-02 17:10 -0500]:

>    On my machine F6 doesn't work at all. Nothing happens to alsamixer.
>    I am aware that alsamixer is not mouse-friendly, and I do not try to
>    control alsamixer with the mouse. On the other hand, alsamixer seems
>    to interfere with my mouse.
>    Steps to reproduce mouse freeze:
>    (1) open terminal
>    (2) start alsamixer
>    (3) press the F6 key
>    That's it. After that the mouse freezes into whatever position it is
>    in on the screen and cannot be moved.
>    Pressing ESC to get out of alsamixer does not make the mouse able to
>    move. Neither does closing the terminal where alsamixer was running.
>    The mouse is frozen into position, and I can do nothing to make the
>    mouse active again but reboot.

There is no relation between alsamixer and the Xserver. But hey,
maybe you put a shortcut to <F6>? Hit <F6> without starting
alsamixer and test your mouse.

Else you can change to a vt with <ctrl><alt><F1> login and start
alsamixer. Does it work like you want to?

>    If this problem were more universal, I imagine there would be lots of
>    complaints. Since I seem to be the only one, I understand the
>    skepticism.
>    Susan Cragin

Elimar

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  can be found to make it complex and wonderful ;-)
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