On Wednesday 30 Jul 2008 2:20:00 am Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> I haven't figured out the cause of this, but it occurred to me just
> recently that it might be kwin-related... I have this problem where
> periodically (i.e. "usually several times per day") my desktop (KDE
> trunk) stops responding to mouse events. The cursor still moves, the
> machine otherwise works normally, but all mouse clicks are apparently
> sent to /dev/null.
>
> The darndest thing is, if I fire up KVM (Win XP guest), let it boot, and
> do an OS shutdown, the mouse works again. (SDL grab+release doesn't fix
> it, starting KVM and shutting it down doesn't... it has to go through
> booting XP and shutting down XP, and when kvm goes away it works again.)
> But it isn't a kvm problem because it can break when kvm isn't running.
>
> xidump shows that the mouse events are getting into X.
>
> Any thoughts? Any guesses what to blame, or how to debug?
I remember facing such a problem a couple of months ago. My only way out
seemed to be logout:logback. I was told it was a bug in kded which was later
fixed.
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Cheers!
Kishore
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