hi all,
apologies for the all-lowercase and other features of this email - but
therein lies my problem -exclamation mark-
from time to time x will just pretend that the caps lock, shift, and alt
keys have dropped off the face of the earth... this means i can't copy n
paste, i can't type email address, i can't switch consoles, i can't use
any keyboard shortcuts rendering most programs useless... as has
happened now, as you can tell by the lack of uppercase, smileys, etc in
this email...
using xev, the keypresses are definitely still getting through and
recognised as the right keys. my laptop keyboard or a usb keyboard do
the same thing. if i switch to a vt by using `sudo chvt 2` then i can
use shift, etc again. i can even ctrl-alt-f7 to get back to x, but then
i can't use ctrl-alt to get away again.
the only thing that solves it is logging out and restarting x. which is
sometimes not possible for a while when i'm in the middle of flashing
firmware on a device...
the only thing i can think of that might affect this is vmware or vnc.
i'm using both a lot at the moment, so perhaps something to do with the
keyboard grabbing is affecting x -question mark- however closing both
vnc and vmware don't fix it...
well, i sure would appreciate any hints... thanks -smile-
--
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
Our sires' age was worse that our grandsires'.
We their sons are more worthless than they:
so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.
-- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
