gnome-settings-daemon grabs my keyboard and won't let go
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GNOME Settings Daemon |
Expired
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Medium
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gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Medium
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-settings-
On several occasions my Ubuntu desktop became unusable: I could interact with the applications by using my mouse, but keyboard events were suppressed. After a long and painful session full of experiments (full story here: <http://
I don't know how to reproduce the problem intentionally. The symptoms include:
* application menus, panel menus, calendar applet react when you click on them, but popups with the actual menus never appear
* you can no longer move windows
* you cannot type into text boxes
The workaround is ssh'ing from a different machine and running 'killall gnome-settings-
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon: | |
status: | Incomplete → Triaged |
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon: | |
status: | Unknown → Incomplete |
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon: | |
status: | Incomplete → New |
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon: | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon: | |
status: | Incomplete → Expired |
thank you for your bug report, what ubuntu version do you use? do you have some special configuration? there has been no other bugs about that so it could be specific to your configuration, without details on how to trigger the bug not easy to work on it