Author: Owain Clarke Date: To: hampshire Subject: [Hampshire] Re: X problem - I think
>> 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.
> Thanks - I'll try it. > 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.
> Any idea why it might happen with Gnome?
