My keyboard and mouse partially stopped functioning.
I freshly installed Xubuntu 16.04 yesterday. This never occurred in my previous installation (Xubuntu 14.04).
What might've caused this? Is it possible to restart any components from the terminal to fix this issue when it occurs again, without restarting my desktop? (I restarted lightdm this time, but this closed all of my open programs which may cause data loss, so I don't want to do that in the future.)
- My mouse pointer still moved, but I could not click anything. The interface did not react to mouse hovering (like button highlighting on hover).
- I could not use most keyboard commands, for example, to open a window menu with alt + space. However, alt-tab still worked, and I could use F12 to open my guake terminal.
- Typing in the guake terminal still worked.
I freshly installed Xubuntu 16.04 yesterday. This never occurred in my previous installation (Xubuntu 14.04).
What might've caused this? Is it possible to restart any components from the terminal to fix this issue when it occurs again, without restarting my desktop? (I restarted lightdm this time, but this closed all of my open programs which may cause data loss, so I don't want to do that in the future.)