On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:39:56AM +0200, RedShift wrote: > Jason Chu wrote: > > I've got this weird problem that I think is caused by X. > > > > I've been following testing for a while now (so I have gnome, db, and > > heimdal). > > > > Every so often, and apparently randomly, X will stop taking any input except > > for mouse movement. But the mouse movement doesn't even trigger the focus > > follows mouse. > > > > The panel will still update and so will windows, but my input just totally > > doesn't work. > > > > The only thing that I can do to fix it seems to be sshing in and killing X. > > I run xfce4 so it might be the gnome/gtk updates that aren't working well > > with it... > > > > Has anyone heard anything about problems with X or is it just me? > > > > Jason > > > > I actually had a similar problem with gnome, especially when alt+f4'ing > mozilla applications: I lose all keyboard control. I have to click > somewhere before my keyboard started working again. I've always had this > problem and this was one of the reasons why I switched to KDE. It's > probably a metacity bug or something. > > The issue you describe, no input working at all (you can only move the > mouse, clicking doesn't do anything, keyboard unresponsive), I've > encountered this before with broken drivers or broken hardware, I can't > remember which one it was. What graphics card do you have? IIRC this > happened to me with nvidia hardware.
Intel i945GM. > Is there a pattern in this happening? Such as on certain applications? I wish there was. I even started running single or a few programs at once. It didn't matter the programs that were run. Any program or programs could cause it. Jason
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