On 25 September 2013 13:01, Ian Malone <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 24 September 2013 19:33, Tod Thomas <fr33zone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I've read that fc17 is end of life but maybe someone has run into this. I'm >> running fc17, latest upgrades, using XFCE, and periodically the keyboard >> just stops working, mouse is fine. I end up having to mouse over ALL of my >> open windows saving and closing. Once I logoff and logon everything works >> normally. I've checked the Xorg log, messages, dmesg, everything I can >> think of but its sill happening. I even tried turning off the screen saver >> but that didn't help either. It happens inconsistently which makes it even >> more annoying :) >> >> Not sure there's a single answer given the possible moving parts involved. >> If nobody can think of anything off the top of their head could someone >> suggest a good way to try and debug? I'll be upgrading here eventually but >> right now the timing is not optimal. >> > > Can you change to a virtual console (Ctl-Alt-Fn where n!=1) when this > happens? (And if not can you do it normally?) N.B. Alt-F1 should get > you back to the desktop. Might help in working out whether this is a > problem with X or with XFCE. > Also, may want to check you've not accidentally turned on some accessibility option like sticky keys. (This used to catch me out in KDE because a long shift keypress enabled it, until I got fed up enough to turn that off.) -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
