On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 08:22:39AM -0500, Bruce Hill wrote: > Last night my laptop began having two problems. > > First, when I paste with middle-click of the mouse into Firefox, there is no > output on the screen for about 2-3 seconds. In Libreoffice it takes about > 7-8s, and then the mouse cursor doesn't change from the I-beam back to the > pointer for another 2s or so. Pasting into urvxt seems instantaneous, although > last night I did have some issues with a tab or urxvt where I had ssh'ed into > a server running irssi in screen -- the backspace key seemed to be stuck, but > that stopped after I did a ^A^D and then "screen -dx 17169.pts-3.server". > > Second, there is an image from Workspace 1 showing up on top of the app > running in Workspace 2. The first screenshot I took to show this had the > xfce-extra/xfce4-screenshooter app appearing there, also. I've used it many > times and never saw this behavior. I tried another screenshot to move it off > the app (which, btw, is Teamviewer), to show that it was still in the desktop > area, and it left these <whatever you call it's> in the second screenshot. > Actually, in the second screenshot you can't see anything that was dragged off > of the Teamviewer (open app) area, just whatever is on it. > > Yesterday this laptop had four updates: > dev-libs/gmp-5.1.2 > media-video/ffmpeg-1.0.7 > net-firewall/iptables-1.4.20 > app-admin/logrotate-3.8.6 > > All of them are stable amd64, and there were no USE flag changes to them or to > make.conf. > > It seems ffmpeg is the only one of those that could have caused it, so I > thought to downgrade and see. However, there doesn't seem to be any downgrade > path for ffmpeg: > > mingdao@baruch ~ $ eshowkw media-video/ffmpeg > Keywords for media-video/ffmpeg: > | | u | > | a a p s | n | > | l m h i m m p s p | u s | r > | p d a p a 6 i p c 3 a x | s l | e > | h 6 r p 6 8 p p 6 9 s r 8 | e o | p > | a 4 m a 4 k s c 4 0 h c 6 | d t | o > ---------+---------------------------+--------------+------- > 0.10.9 | ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ o o ~ ~ o o ~ ~ | o 0.10 | gentoo > ---------+---------------------------+--------------+------- > [I]1.0.7 | + + + + + o ~ + + o o + + | o 0 | gentoo > 1.0.8 | ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ o ~ ~ ~ o o ~ ~ | o | gentoo > 1.2.3 | o ~ ~ ~ o o ~ ~ ~ o o o ~ | # | gentoo > 1.2.4 | o ~ ~ ~ o o ~ ~ ~ o o o ~ | o | gentoo > ---------+---------------------------+--------------+------- > [M]2.0.2 | ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ o ~ ~ ~ o o ~ ~ | o 0/52.55.55 | gentoo > [M]9999 | o o o o o o o o o o o o o | o | gentoo
News ... I stopped Teamviewer and the bad behavior stopped. I restarted it and all seems well, atm. -- Happy Penguin Computers >') 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ supp...@happypenguincomputers.com 662-269-2706 662-205-6424 http://happypenguincomputers.com/ A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting
