every so often, i get weird cursor focus problems

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Jim Byrnes wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >    occasionally, i've run into the problem where my entire desktop
> > enters some strange state where i can't activate a window by
> > simply clicking on it, i can't switch virtual desktops, and a
> > bunch of other oddities that seem related to mouse focus of some
> > kind.  in fact, it's happening right now.  any suggestions?
> >
> >    ubuntu pre-maverick.
> >
> > rday
> >
>
> Just happened to me for the first time yesterday.  Your exact
> symptoms and more. Try pushing the esc key a few times, this
> eventually let me shutdown.  I rebooted twice but the problems
> remained and I thought I was hosed.  The third time I rebooted all
> was well, just like it never happened.

  argh.  this just happened to me for the second time in less than an
hour and it is quickly losing its entertainment value.  i've tried
various combinations of ctrl, alt, esc, backspace and so on, to no
avail.  i finally just switched to virtual console tty1 so i could
post this note.

  this strikes me as a fairly serious issue.  has the actual cause
been identified yet?

rday

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