[ILUG] Losing keyboard focus after an hour!

[john Moylan]

Is Compiz activated? If so, turn it off.

2008/10/15 Kingsley G. Morse Jr. <change at nas.com>

> Hi John,
>
> You seem smart.
>
> You may have already tried this...
>
> Have you looked in /var/log/messages and
> /var/log/XFree86.0.log for clues?
>
> Thanks,
> Kingsley
>
> On 10/15/08 10:39, John Kinsella wrote:
> > I'm running Ubuntu HH fully updated at work and at home.
> >
> > On a lightly loaded machine at home recently (XEmacs, Firefox, xpdf & a
> > few Gnome terminals) after about an hour of typing & LaTeX-ing I lose
> > keyboard focus (not sure if this is right term?). No keyboard input
> > possible though mouse still works.
> >
> > I turned off screensaver in case that was problem.
> >
> > The problem recurs about once an hour (but not exactly).
> >
> > Only other thing I can think of is the Update Notifier.
> >
> > I've googled without success.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > John
> >
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