Bug#337234: xorg-x11: x stops receiving keyboard events after xscreensaver started
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 13:28 +0000, Paul Brossier wrote:
>
> after xscreensaver starts, if i try to type in my password to unlock the
> screen, no * is printed, and the timer gets reseted to the beginning.
>
> if i go to console mode with alt+ctl+f1, and kill xscreensaver, the
> mouse works fine, and alt+tab too. but no other key event seem to be
> able to reach the screen. some other weird things happen, such as the
> gnome menu not willing to open.
>
> i tried killing just about all my processes from the console, but no
> luck. restarting X does it.
>
> the keyboard is an apple usb keyboard with an italian layout (but i
> prefer the us one).
Does this always happen, i.e. has it happened several times? There's a
known issue (that unfortunately still hasn't been tracked down, but most
evidence points towards the kernel) where sometimes a key gets 'stuck',
and if that happens to be a modifier, it can cause symptoms such as
those you describe.
Another possibility would be that a client is keeping the keyboard
grabbed, although that's rather unlikely given that you killed 'just
about all' your processes and that alt-tab still works. Nonetheless, you
may want to read up on Option "AllowDeactivateGrabs" in the
xorg.conf(5x) manpage and see if that helps.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer
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