The problem has gone away for me. It's been stable for a few weeks now.
However I have no idea which update to Gutsy fixed it. I'm still running
Kubuntu Gutsy 64, Compiz and the nvidia proprietary driver.
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[Gutsy] desktop and keyboard freezes while mouse is moveable
https://bugs.launchpad.net/b
Trouble here too.
Kubuntu Gutsy 64, Compiz, nvidia proprietary driver.
Every so often the keyboard stops responding. Num lock doesn't even
toggle. Mouse still works.
Logging in remotely and killing compiz ("killall -KILL compiz.real")
allows the keyboard to function again. At that point it's just