Quoting "Thomas J. Baker" <tjb(a)unh.edu>:
On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 23:31 +1000, Steven Haigh wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been having this issue for a few days now and it's really gotten
> to the point where I can't stand it anymore.. My laptop (a Dell
> Inspiron 8600) is having issues where after a while of use with
> various apps (usually gaim, gnome-terminal, and firefox), the
> keyboard just locks up.
>
> Now I'm not sure what's going on when it does this, as everything
> looks normal... the only difference I can tell is that the gnome-
> terminal prompt goes from it's normal box to a hollow box. during
> this time i can't click on menus or do anything useful.
>
> The one thing I CAN do is to use the keyboard to press CTRL + ALT +
> F1 and low and behold, the keyboard works fine again. switch back to
> X, and the keyboard doesn't work. rinse, lather, repeat.
>
> There are no obvious things in Xorg.0.log that could indicate what's
> going on, however if I kill gnome-terminal with the mouse, everything
> comes back to normal. As I do 90% of my work in a terminal, this is
> DAMN annoying...
>
> Anyone have any ideas on how to track this down? I've drawn a mental
> blank.
>
Try the updated metacity in this bug.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204519
This did indeed seem to fix the problem. Thanks Thomas!
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Steven Haigh
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