Highlighting problem, unable to click?

[Richard_Clement]

Hello all,

I am running Ubuntu 10.04 beta with the XFCE environment (in VMware on Windows Vista) and sometimes when I highlight some text in Mozilla Firefox too quickly it will prevent me from being able to click anything. Through the ALT key combinations I can close Firefox, yet the problem persists on the desktop.

Interestingly enough, the mouse will still cause buttons to show the 'hover' state but I cannot click them at all.

Most barbarically, I have resorted to pressing tons of keys to get it to react, and this has worked with moderate success, but I do not know which keys fixed it.

Does anyone know how I might fix this issue next time it appears?

Thanks,
Richard

[Richard_Clement]

Well, if anyone has any ideas, I would greatly appreciate it.

[soltanis]

You could always kill and restart your X server with the combination Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, but that's non-ideal.

You need to enable it too, it's disabled by default (along with Magic Sysrqs, which is stupid in my opinion):

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XorgCtrlAltBackspace