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. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
