* Brian Ristuccia ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 09:56:38PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > > > Is it all that common that firefox will hang when it's grabbed the X > > pointer? > > Yes. The most common hang case is after a newly opened window has first > shown and focus is put into the title bar / location bar area. Clicking on > the bookmarks menu, for example, will hang the browser with a partially > displayed menu and the cursor grabbed. > > > Plus, how couldn't you get another terminal up? I mean if you > > disable all the VCs on the machine, then it's possible, but is that > > really a realistic scenario? > > > > Assuming the end user even knows what a virtual terminal is and how to > switch between them, there's lots of cases where you won't have another > usable virtual terminal to switch to. One case occurs when displaying > firefox on a dumb x terminal. Another case is handheld and tablet PC's > without hard keyboards - on these systems the character cell console is > useless as the handwriting recognizer or on-screen keyboard only works in X. > > (When displaying firefox on my ipaq over wifi, I actually need to press the > reset button in order to recover from this condition). I still don't think either of these cases are likely. But it would definitely good to get a fix for this bug. Have you seen this problem only with 2.6 kernels? Have you tried any 2.4 kernels to see if you can reproduce it.
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