loosing mouse on spring crash

[clericvash]

has anyone else kept loosing control of their mouse when spring crashes?

[fastfox]

unfortunately yes! Bunch of times.

[clericvash]

It's fracking annoying having to reboot to get my mouse back because of spring crashing!

[BrainDamage]

don't use spring's internal fullscreen function (provided by SDL), instead make the app windowed with the same size of your desktop and make it be fullscreen using your window manager settings

for kde, just click on the app icon on top left corner, for gnome install gdevilspie

you'll make your WM much more tollerant to spring crashes, also you'll get the benefit of faster render (your results may vary), also alt tab will work

[Nemoder]

I run Spring windowed also but for other games that are better fullscreen you can try compiling this:
http://icculus.org/misc/umouse.c

Then assuming you still have keyboard control and can bring up a term with hotkeys then just run that to get the mouse back. You can put it in a script along with this to reset your resolution too:
xrandr -s 1
xrandr -s 0
xgamma -gamma 1

[clericvash]

don't use spring's internal fullscreen function (provided by SDL), instead make the app windowed with the same size of your desktop and make it be fullscreen using your window manager settings

for kde, just click on the app icon on top left corner, for gnome install gdevilspie

you'll make your WM much more tollerant to spring crashes, also you'll get the benefit of faster render (your results may vary), also alt tab will work

Thanks for the great idea, will try it!

[Sertse]

Minor note: If you had the desktop cube activated, you might want to disable it.

I find if you have it on, and making it fullscreen using the gdevilspie method, the ingame screen doesn't move as you expect when moving the mouse to the side. This doesn't happen if you use the normal method.

This affect moving left and right. Top and down is okay, as ae the corners.

Disabling the cube fixes it though.

[YokoZar]

Easiest way to get your mouse back is to hit alt+f2 (for run a command), and type in spring to relauch spring.

Then just quit normally after starting a game.

[clericvash]

Easiest way to get your mouse back is to hit alt+f2 (for run a command), and type in spring to relauch spring.

Then just quit normally after starting a game.

Any chance we can get a sticky topic with FAQ stuff like that?

[Peet]

Throw one together and it'll get stickied

[rattle]

My mouse never loosens...

[Fri13]

It's fracking annoying having to reboot to get my mouse back because of spring crashing!

You dont need to reboot OS, just restart your X window system with ctrl+alt+backspace and you get your desktop with mouse support back.

Unless you do that alt+F2 "spring" and close it -trick.

GNU/Linux is great becaue OS does not hang out, but the applications definetly can crash, especially the desktop enviroments what are so complicated softwares.

[HAARP]

Use umouse. No need to restart anything
I even made an Ebuild if you use Gentoo. Just search for umouse on Gentoo's Bugzilla