On 15 Aug 2002 16:49:50 -0400, Stephen Dennison wrote:
>
> I have had this problem before... Didn't take too long to figure out that
> num lock was down, so I didn't feel too stupid, however it has happened to
> me again lately and the num lock was not pressed. I haven't been able to
> put my finger on exactly what causes it, and when I try to intentionally
> recreate the problem I can't seem to do it, but every once in a while I go
> back to my terminal and discover that I can't drag windows around just
> like the num lock was pressed.
> The problem has occurred once when I left my terminal for a period of time
> not greater than 5 minutes with a screen saver running, some applications
> being xhosted from other machines, and a few local running applications.
> It has occurred several times while I have screen locked and left the
> machine running over the weekend, again with several xhosted applications
> and just a handful of locally running programs.
> In order to fix the problem I actually have to restart X, not just the
> window manager.
The next time this happens, run xev and press any key or mouse button.
Normally "state" should be 0x0, but if some (unknown) modifier is pressed
"state" will be always different than zero (ignore non-zero value on mouse
releases). Report your results.
Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Thu Aug 15 2002 - 16:06:39 BST