Gedit semi-frozen/hangs; does not accept keyboard/mouse input
I have a very weird problem with the gedit 2.30.3 text editor on GNOME 2.30.2 (Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS):
Any and all mouse clicks and key-presses into the gedit window are summarily ignored. When I say the gedit window, I mean the gedit window proper, the window contents, not the decoration of the gedit instance I have running. I can grab the window decoration and resize the window no problem. I can minimize it and maximize it, move it to other workspaces, and do anything that the window decorations are sort of responsible for. However, when I click anywhere in the actual program, e.g. on the pull-down menu (doesn't expand), on the buttons, in the text edit area, it doesn't do anything. Neither is trying to type anything. I also can't simply quit the program. (I know I could kill -9 it, and I have no doubts that would work, but I don't want to do that yet.) Meanwhile the cursor still blinks; so it's not totally frozen, but I can't type anything. If I launch gedit again in the same workspace, it does open a new tab with a new unsaved file, but I can't close it (so the only way is up, it seems ). (EDIT: If I launch gedit again in another workspace, it does open a new instance that is responsive, and that I can work in and quit properly.)
This is what the unresponsive gedit session looks like: http://i.imgur.com/IT0xR.png (looks harmless enough, but is unresponsive)
I can't even really remember doing anything in particular when this odd behaviour started. I think I might have been trying to copy and paste something into gedit.
This is what ps tells me:
Code:
$ ps ax|grep [g]edit
673 ? S 1:16 gedit
I do have unsaved text in some of the new text tabs. I want to:
1. Understand what has happened.
2. Save the unsaved text -- even if I have to resort to running a debugger or doing a memory dump -- something I've never really done before.
3. If possible, prevent this from recurring.
Is there anything I could/should do? Any and all suggestions or ideas would be highly welcome!
hi folks,
i've got a blank hp visualize C3000 workstation and installed HP-UX 11.11. When I want to start X, I get the following error message:
# X
Fatal server error:
Couldn't open X pointer device! Is one attached?
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Dear friends,
I need to stop getting input from keyboard and mouse at some specific time like, every day from 6 PM to 7PM likewise.
How can I do this. Kindly guide me to do this.
I need to block the input.
I am using Debian OS. (5 Replies)
I need help from someone that is good at making scripts. I'm trying to make a script file that checks for keyboard and mouse activity during 1 am to 8 am and logs you off if it detects activity. I can't find anything useful in google.
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hi
I've configured X Server using Video Configuration Manager on SCO 5.0.6, but the keyboard and mouse are freezing after 5 minutes on the graphical login mask.
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BTW I finished the configuration,... (2 Replies)
I would like a script that would run pm-suspend if there has been no keyboard or mouse input for a specified time.
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Never mind. I found a setting in power management that does what I need. (0 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
gnome-text-editor
gedit(1) User Commands gedit(1)NAME
gnome-text-editor, gedit - Limited functionality text editor for the GNOME desktop.
SYNOPSIS
gnome-text-editor [--debug [-section]] [gnome-std-options] [--help] [--new-document] [--new-window] [--quit] [filename]
gedit [--debug [-section]] [gnome-std-options] [--help] [--new-document] [--new-window] [--quit] [filename]
DESCRIPTION
The gnome-text-editor application is a text editor for the GNOME desktop. The application is also called gedit. You can use gedit as a
shorter command to start the application. The application enables you to edit multiple documents at the same time. Each document resides in
a specific tabbed section of the application window.
When you start the application from the command line, you can specify one or more filenames. When gedit starts, the application opens all
files that you list on the command line.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
--debug [-section] Run gedit in debug mode. In debug mode all the functions that are being called dump the function names to the con-
sole. You can specify the following sections for debugging:
o window
o commands
o document
o file
o plugins
o prefs
o print
o search
o undo
o view
o recent
Run gedit --help for more information.
gnome-std-options Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5) for more information.
--help Print the command line options.
--new-document Create a new top-level document or tabbed section in an existing instance of gedit.
--new-window Create a new top-level window in an existing instance of gedit.
--quit Quit an existing instance of gedit.
EXTENDED DESCRIPTION
The gedit application accepts pipes, so you can specify a pipe after another command, to load the output of the command into gedit. For
example:
example% ls -l | gedit
EXAMPLES
Example 1: To Edit an ASCII File Named document.txt
example% gedit document.txt
Example 2: To Add a New Tab That Contains an ASCII File Named book.txt
example% gedit --new-document book.txt
Example 3: To Add a New Top-Level Window That Contains an ASCII File Named testfile.txt
example% gedit --new-window testfile.txt
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Application exited successfully.
>0 An error occurred.
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/gnome-text-editor
The executable file for the gnome-text-editor application.
/usr/bin/gedit
A symbolic link to the gnome-text-editor executable file.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWgnome-text-editor |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| | |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |External |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO gnome-std-options(5), libgtksourceview-1.0(3)
Online Help gedit manual.
NOTES
This man page was written by the following people: Paolo Maggi, Chema Celorio, James Willcox, Federico Mena Quintero.
Updated by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003, 2004.
SunOS 5.10 31 Aug 2004 gedit(1)
04-21-2011
). (EDIT: If I launch gedit again in another workspace, it does open a new instance that is responsive, and that I can work in and quit properly.)