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[ILUG] Losing keyboard focus after an hour!

[ILUG] Losing keyboard focus after an hour!

Kingsley G. Morse Jr. change at nas.com
Wed Oct 15 17:22:37 IST 2008


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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