doh, just locked up again. I started vmware workstation 6.5.1 and then started a virtual machine. As the virtual machine came up, the mouse "lockup" occured again.
Interestingly, the keyboard is also affected. For example, given screens 1 to 4, vmware is running on screen 4, I have some xterms in screen 3. the keyboard focus appears to stay on screen 3, where I can use META3 (left alt) + j to toggle between the two visible xterms (using awesome 3), but META3-1 (2 3 4 etc) does not change tag selection, and CTRL- META3-k does not move to the next screen. strange that some key combinations work, others do not. As I move the mouse cursor around, when I get to screen 1, the cursor changes from pointer to a text cursor on certain areas of the screen. There seemed to be at least two horizontal rectangles (not full width) on screen 1 where the cursor changed to a text cursor. The shapes of the areas did not look like any other window on any screen. I was able to use gnome-screensaver-command -l to get all black screens, but I could not use the keyboard to get logged back in. Pressing enter did nothing, pressing escape would beep at me. I ssh'd in and used gnome-screensaver-command -d to turn off the screensaver, the mouse and keyboard are still messed up. I was able to shutdown vmware, but the mouse did not return to normal. I had to restart gdm. I guess I will try switching to metacity for a while in case it's an awesome thing, though I doubt it is. btw, starting that vmware instance pegs the cpu % use and cpu load goes up and up, lots of wait state time due to a not-so-fast raid 1 configuration I think. Maybe that is a clue.. I am using a usb logitech mouse and a usb fingerworks igesture pad. Unplugging the igesture pad and replugging did not fix the problem, though the event was noted in xorg.log in real-time. -- No more mouse events after using rdesktop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/55739 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
