I was unable to recreate this on Raring (13.04) with a Lenovo X201 Tablet. Either way though this is a bug with the failsafeXServer which is provided by xdiagnose so I am changing the package appropriately.
** Package changed: friendly-recovery (Ubuntu) => xdiagnose (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xdiagnose in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1169004 Title: friendly-recovery: failsafeX dialog is not keyboard controllable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xdiagnose/+bug/1169004/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp