On Saturday, 19 Jun 2004 10:23, Daniel Klein wrote:
I am using KDE 3.2.2 (distro is Debian / unstable) and I've had a very strange thing happen to me two times today already: While changing between tasks with alt+tab, I got stuck in the change tasks box.
This is in the bugtracking system: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=254973
and has been discussed in debian-kde: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2004/06/msg00137.html
and in debian-user: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/06/msg02534.html
Those are all generally good places to look before asking.
Thanks for the answers, but none of these seem to describe the problem I have encountered.
To rephrase: I need to kill KDE, and the only way that is possible is by going for the 'start' menu / logout. Today the same thing happened to me again, unfortunately Kate decided to pop up a 'do you want to save' dialogbox which I could not answer in any way. I had to *HARDWARE RESET* my box. Do you know how icky that is, when you've gotten used to Linux? I'm using Linux for stability.. this is pissing me off mightily.
Question: What is metacity? (the bug you posted was dealing with metacity.. I don't feel like digging deep into googling and finding out exactly what it is. I'll assume it's a part of KDE?) Why were these things discussed on the DEBIAN lists and not on the KDE list? Why is that bug in the debian bug tracker and not in the KDE bugtracker?
Here's a full summary of the thing that happens to me again:
RANDOMLY (I cannot provoke the behaviour at all), the taskchanger box will not close after I release alt-tab. This seems to be unrelated to whether I press and release quickly or not. After that, ALL keyboard input is ignored (none of the other descriptions you linked me to mention that - even alt becoming sticky wouldn't explain why numlock should no longer work), and all mouse clicking is ignored except for clicks on tasks in the change task box (clicking moves the frame, no selection or closing of the box happens) and clicks on the panel. By clicking on the panel, I can start tasks (konsole, konqueror...) but I won't be able to interact with the newly launched programs. I get to open the start menu and do the same there. The only way out of that place is to click log out and pray there won't be any 'do you want to save' dialogs (which I won't be able to answer). All keyboard input is IGNORED - not even toggling numlock or capslock works, ctrl-alt+f1-f6 are ignored, ctrl-alt+BACKSPACE is ignored, I can't even get my PC to beep by holding down many keys. This has happened well over 10 times to me now.
After searching the KDE bug database for some time and finding nothing, I decided to submit a bugreport myself: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83737
Thanks again for the links you posted, but none of them seemed to cover my problem.
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