[ale] Keyboard lockups

[James P. Kinney III]

Keep an ssh session open from another system into your box. When the
keyboard locks up, grab the other system and start killing off the
latest app your were using and testing to see if that app was the one
that killed the keyboard.

I have hit this problem before in Gnome. (I don't use KDE but I'm sure
it can happen there as well) Basically an app with too much privilege
overwrites the keyboard listener then it hangs as it no longer gets
input. There was a big gnome clean up that happened around v1.6 that
resolved most of these issues. I have not tested the new 1.8 (yet).

On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 13:32, David Corbin wrote:
> Well, disabling the APIC option has made my system much happier.  Now, twice 
> in a day, I've had this problem where the keyboard simply stopped 
> functioning.  Both times, I was in X, and both times, I was just about to 
> send an IM in Gaim (so it might be a GAIM-related problem).
> 
> Rebooting corrected it.  Next time, I'll take smaller steps -- kill GAIM, if I 
> can, restart X,  Try typing in a virtual console.  But, in the mean time, any 
> other suggestions?
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