[ale] Keyboard lockups

David Corbin dcorbin at enttek.com
Fri Oct 1 15:09:27 EDT 2004


On Friday 01 October 2004 03:00 pm, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 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).
>

Any reason I couldn't establish the ssh session once the problem occurs?



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