The key word to be searching for is “ungrab” mouse. here is a stackexchange on this.. On some systems ctrl-alt-/(on keypad) might work, but that is often disabled for security.
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This is exactly what I needed, thanks!
Xorg bad?
It's not bad. It's just old, broken and unmaintained.
That is another word for "bad"... But I guess that was the joke 😅
old
Old doesn't mean bad
broken
Is it?
unmaintained
Is it?
I use Wayland personally, but I've had almost zero issues with X in the last decade, maybe with the exception of minor screen tearing several years back.
My comment above should be taken with a grain of salt.
broken
It works in many cases. From a privacy/security standpoint, it is a nightmare since any program can just access all other windows. Multiple monitor setups with different scaling don't work at all. …
unmaintained
While the git repo receives some commits, most of them are fixes for xwayland. Most X11 contributors that are still active are working on wayland now. See https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commits/master and (not so serious) https://floss.social/@XOrgFoundation/110769221673585385
Ah, I've almost always used a single monitor setup, so my use case wasn't weird enough to break X11. That said. Even Wayland is wonky on my multi monitor setup at work, though that's probably more a GNOME thing than a Wayland thing.
I do still think the approach they took with Wayland is a tad odd, in that everyone has to implement it themselves. But hey, if it works, it works.
I recently enabled SysRq to kill processes that hang and it’s been working nicely. Haven’t had to restart in a while. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key
Does CTRL+ALT+ESC and click work? I think it's Xorg's way of killing a window.
nope, that is probably window manager specific, i'm using i3, but any keyboard shortcuts get disabled when a window grabs the pointer anyway, i found a solution and updated my post
Recommend u to learn xorg documentation https://www.x.org/wiki/guide/
Maybe once I am a bit more used to reading and understanding documentation for large existing libraries and programs.