Keyboard stops responding when using gnome-terminal

Steven Haigh netwiz at crc.id.au
Tue Sep 12 03:40:00 UTC 2006


Quoting "Thomas J. Baker" <tjb at 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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