Re: could not grab your keyboard

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 11:07:23 +0800, lina wrote:

> On Saturday 11,August,2012 12:17 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:53:02 +0800, lina wrote:
>> 
>>> I met following problem:
>>>
>>> "Could not grab your keyboard.
>>> A malicious client may be eavesdropping on your session or you may
>>> just clicked a menu or some application decided to get focused. Try
>>> again"
>> 
>> (...)
>> 
>> Unless you provide additional information on the above message (when it
>> happens, what are you running...) I can only but recommend:
> 
> Thanks, I will try to answer the questions.

Much better, thanks :-)

So in brief, that you were connected over a remote session to another 
system and you suddenly got the message after a while, right?

Okay, the first I would do is replacing the keyboard or if you are using 
the one of your laptop, attach an external one and check if the message 
reappears. 

Should this happens again, you can try to remotely login to the laptop 
(via ssh) and restart the X server (init 1) in te hope this solves the 
problem. You can also restart your current user session or open a new one 
(from another user, in paralel).

Also, review your "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for any anomality. It could have 
been a random hardware glitch.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón