Keyboard stops responding when using gnome-terminal

[Steven Haigh]

Quoting Steven Haigh <netwiz at crc.id.au>:
> Quoting "Thomas J. Baker" <tjb at unh.edu>:
>
>> On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 23:31 +1000, Steven Haigh wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I've been having this issue for a few days now and it's really gotten
>>> to the point where I can't stand it anymore.. My laptop (a Dell
>>> Inspiron 8600) is having issues where after a while of use with
>>> various apps (usually gaim, gnome-terminal, and firefox), the
>>> keyboard just locks up.
>>>
>>> Now I'm not sure what's going on when it does this, as everything
>>> looks normal... the only difference I can tell is that the gnome-
>>> terminal prompt goes from it's normal box to a hollow box. during
>>> this time i can't click on menus or do anything useful.
>>>
>>> The one thing I CAN do is to use the keyboard to press CTRL + ALT +
>>> F1 and low and behold, the keyboard works fine again. switch back to
>>> X, and the keyboard doesn't work. rinse, lather, repeat.
>>>
>>> There are no obvious things in Xorg.0.log that could indicate what's
>>> going on, however if I kill gnome-terminal with the mouse, everything
>>> comes back to normal. As I do 90% of my work in a terminal, this is
>>> DAMN annoying...
>>>
>>> Anyone have any ideas on how to track this down? I've drawn a mental
>>> blank.
>>>
>> Try the updated metacity in this bug.
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204519
>>
>
> This did indeed seem to fix the problem. Thanks Thomas!

After a number of hours of use/testing, I have noticed this still  
happen on at least 3 or 4 occasions... Has anyone else still had this  
issue happen?

-- 
Steven Haigh

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