Re: [Hampshire] X problem - I think

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Author: Simon Huggins
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] X problem - I think

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On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 07:35:53AM +0000, Owain Clarke wrote:
> I'm using Debian Lenny with xfce as my default desktop. Recently a
> problem has started to occur where I lose the inability to input from
> the keyboard. The pointer still moves with the mouse, but I can't
> click on anything either - nothing obvious triggers it. I can switch
> to a terminal using alt+SysRq+R, from where I can kill the desktop and
> start again. I've tried using Gnome, but the same problem occurs. It
> also happens to my boys, who use xfce, but hasn't occurred yet when I
> use WindowMaker.


Install xfwm4 4.4.1-3 from unstable.

See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=442053

Basically gtk 2.12 hit testing without xfwm4. We hadn't quite realised
it would be this much of an issue in testing and missed getting a
conflict on the old version of xfwm4 to the newer GTK added. xfwm4
didn't propagate to testing as it hadn't built for arm due to a random
SNAFU and it wasn't requeued by the buildd admin. After prodding, it's
now built for arm but Debian's main ftp mirror (ftp-master) is currently
down so no testing propagation is happening.

Fun fun fun.

Simon, with his Debian xfce maintainer hat on.

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