On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 12:58, Fred Albrecht wrote: > On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 16:48, Brian V Bonini wrote: > > > I realize that, the question really is, what's causing it to switch to > > off to begin with... > > Hard to say without extensive testing. You'd have to test it > periodically and make a note of the last app you started. > > Personally I'd suspect KDE (but then I always suspect KDE when something > goes wrong ;) ). > > Apart from that systematic approach, I can't really think of a way to > keep an eye on that setting to be notified when it changes... > > Maybe something like > > while 1 > do > date >> mylogfile > ps ax | tail >> mylogfile > xset q | head >> mylogfile > sleep 1 > done > > Not very elegant but you can use that to see when the setting changes > and what the last apps were (kind of yucky, I know).
Several days later.... Thu Jun 5 12:21:54 EDT 2003 17782 ? R 1:50 /usr/bin/vmware /home/brian/vmware/win2000Pro/win2000 17783 ? S 0:00 vmware-ui -A 7 -B 4 -S -L /tmp/vmware-brian-17782.log 17784 ? S 0:00 vmware-mks -A 8 -B 5 -S -L /tmp/vmware-brian-17782.lo 17785 ? S< 0:00 vmware [ide1:0] 17786 ? D< 0:02 vmware [scsi0:0] 17787 ? S< 0:00 vmware [Floppy] 17938 ? D 0:00 smbd -D 18020 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1/mozilla-bin ftp://159.215.19.3/a 18188 pts/2 R 0:00 ps ax 18189 pts/2 S 0:00 tail Keyboard Control: auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000000 auto repeat delay: 500 repeat rate: 50 auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf fa9fffffffdfe5ff ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100 Pointer Control: acceleration: 2/1 threshold: 4 ---------------- Thu Jun 5 12:22:05 EDT 2003 17307 ? S 0:00 pickup -l -t fifo -u -c 17782 ? S 1:51 /usr/bin/vmware /home/brian/vmware/win2000Pro/win2000 17783 ? S 0:00 vmware-ui -A 7 -B 4 -S -L /tmp/vmware-brian-17782.log 17784 ? S 0:00 vmware-mks -A 8 -B 5 -S -L /tmp/vmware-brian-17782.lo 17785 ? S< 0:00 vmware [ide1:0] 17786 ? D< 0:02 vmware [scsi0:0] 17787 ? S< 0:00 vmware [Floppy] 17938 ? S 0:00 smbd -D 18196 pts/2 R 0:00 ps ax 18197 pts/2 S 0:00 tail Keyboard Control: auto repeat: off key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000000 auto repeat delay: 500 repeat rate: 50 auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf fa9fffffffdfe5ff ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100 Pointer Control: acceleration: 1/1 threshold: 1000 Thu Jun 5 12:23:07 EDT 2003 17307 ? S 0:00 pickup -l -t fifo -u -c 17782 ? S 2:10 /usr/bin/vmware /home/brian/vmware/win2000Pro/win2000 17783 ? S 0:00 vmware-ui -A 7 -B 4 -S -L /tmp/vmware-brian-17782.log 17784 ? S 0:01 vmware-mks -A 8 -B 5 -S -L /tmp/vmware-brian-17782.lo 17785 ? S< 0:00 vmware [ide1:0] 17786 ? S< 0:03 vmware [scsi0:0] 17787 ? S< 0:00 vmware [Floppy] 17938 ? S 0:00 smbd -D 18238 pts/2 R 0:00 ps ax 18239 pts/2 S 0:00 tail Keyboard Control: auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000000 auto repeat delay: 500 repeat rate: 50 auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf fa9fffffffdfe5ff ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100 Pointer Control: acceleration: 2/1 threshold: 4
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