I believe I have encountered this bug too - my system seemingly hung, but the mouse still responded.
I logged into a new shell using Alt-F2 and saw that the "compiz" process was running at around 100% CPU usage. I didn't really know what to do next, so I took a chance and tried sending a "kill -9" message to the compiz process, and to my joy when I tabbed back to my desktop using Alt-F7 it had all come back to life again (and compiz seemed to have restarted too). Incidentally, this is the first time the hang's happened to me, and it happened whilst I was using Shotwell and dragging a photo into a new event. System info: 11.04 (natty) Linux 2.6.38-8-generic GNOME 2.32.1 Will the above patch be making it into an official package at any point? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of compiz packagers, which is subscribed to compiz in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/773564 Title: compiz occasionally hangs with 100% cpu usage (inotify plugin infinite loop) _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~compiz Post to : compiz@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~compiz More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp