Windows Frozen
 

Hi,
I have a problem here. I have slackware 14.0 installed. But for some reasons, I could not use the mouse to resize, move x-terminal and firefox windows.

Any clue on how to fix this would be appreciated.

Thanks,

For the first time in forever, your windows are frozen. Let it go. Do you want to build a snowman?

Seriously, though, which DE or WM are you using? It sounds like you're using either Xfce or KDE, and the window manager component (Xfwm or Kwin) crashed. The sure sign of that is if the windows are missing their title bars and draggable window borders. Does restarting X (or logging out and back in, if you're on runlevel 4) solve it?

if you could provide us with some more info?
you're not exactly new to this game so you know what's required.

Hi,
Thanks those who have replied. I was using xface. Yes, "The sure sign of that is if the windows are missing their title bars and draggable window borders."
It also happened to KDE. I have tried to restart X several times, and did not work. Finally I switched to "blackbox" and works fine.
Still wanted to know why.

The next time it happens, fire up an X terminal (Konsole or whatever) and try to start either "xfwm4" (if you're in Xfce) or "kwin" (if you're in KDE). I'm not writing this from a Slackware box, so the exact executable names might not be correct. See if there's any terminal output.

This can also happen if you use Compiz and forget to explicitly turn on window decorations. I assume that's not what's happening here.

Thanks so much, and it works.

Best,

what???

and what's xface???

I assume:

Xface is a typo of Xfce

Restarting xfwm4 from the command line worked

Every so often, don't know why, don't really know what, Xfce goes into goofy-land and stays there. Things just quit working. The only "fix" I've been able to come up with is removing the ~/.config and/or the ~/.cache directories, logging out, logging back in and restarting the X server (which rebuilds those directories).

I'd start with ~/.cache and see if that does it, then go nuclear and remove ~/.config. 'Course you're back to the default desktop when you do that (so you have to add launchers, change colors, etc., etc., but the thing does work again.

Hope this helps some.