Timeline for Command for forcing a pointer ungrab (captured mouse release)
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| Aug 25, 2023 at 19:17 | comment | added | baptx | Thanks, very useful solution for this Xfce bug to avoid restarting the session (tested on Debian 11): unix.stackexchange.com/questions/50426/… | |
| May 8, 2023 at 18:30 | comment | added | Pawel Veselov | $.02 KDE by default maps Ctrl-Alt-KPDiv to XF86Ungrab (which doesn't do anything unless grab breaking is enabled, which is that setxkbmap option). Break out of grab can be (permanently) enabled in Input Devices -> Keyboard -> Advnaced -> Compatibility Options. And xkill is great for testing if grab breaking works. | |
| May 7, 2023 at 1:10 | comment | added | likebike | This answer saved me! on Debian 11 with XFCE4. I think mouse was captured by VirtualBox but am not 100% sure. Thank you. | |
| Aug 24, 2018 at 5:10 | review | Suggested edits | |||
| Aug 24, 2018 at 7:33 | |||||
| Aug 14, 2018 at 19:04 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @AaronFranke Run this command when the problem occurs. | |
| Aug 14, 2018 at 17:17 | comment | added | Aaron Franke | Do I have to run the above command every time, or at every boot, or just once? | |
| S May 15, 2017 at 22:21 | history | suggested | alamar | CC BY-SA 3.0 | add setxkbmap |
| May 15, 2017 at 22:15 | review | Suggested edits | |||
| S May 15, 2017 at 22:21 | |||||
| Jan 23, 2013 at 11:00 | history | edited | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | CC BY-SA 3.0 | mention the possibility of sending the keysym with a command, which is in fact closer to what the question requested (thanks Mechanical snail) |
| Jun 11, 2012 at 0:48 | history | answered | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | CC BY-SA 3.0 |