2022-06-14
Today I experience the death of my mice, where my two mice completely stopped working. I tried to unplug and re-plug, but that did not help (once in a while, it helps for one of my mice which has a USB to PS/2 converter).
Restarting X11 may have been a solution, but on Ubuntu 18.04, that has never worked. That is, when I try to do the Ctrl-Alt-F1 to go to text and then come back with Alt-F7 or Alt-F8, the coming back portion doesn't work at all (i.e. it does not come back to X11 anymore, it tries, I can see the screen being switched, but it's not really doing anything).
Then I ...
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