
On 2008.07.08 16:55:04 -0300, Maurício
lithis a écrit :
The last question in the xmonad FAQ deals with keyboard lockups. Some applications grab the keyboard and fail to release the grab (I find that VLC does fairly often after watching a fullscreen video).
Can an application grab the keyboard to the point that I can't use Control-Alt-Backspace? Sorry for asking, but I prefer to try everything before changing my X configuration.
Maurício
I think that is possible; I would swear Firefox and a Urxvt extension (which both seem to call the XGrabAllKeys function or whatever was the problematic one) have both locked up my X in the past such that while the mouse moved around fluidly and fine (indicating no systemic problems), all keypresses including C-M-Backspace were ignored. -- gwern Security 17 speech nkvd CACI ARC SASR FTS2000 Security Ionosphere