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On 07/12/2007, codesite-noreply@google.com
Issue 97: xmonad stops responding to keyboard input after running xscreensaver http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=97
Comment #1 by byorgey: Another data point: today, after unlocking the screen, neither the mouse nor the keyboard would respond. I was still able to switch to a virtual terminal and log in, so I could verify that xmonad was still running. I decided to kill xscreensaver, and it caused X to exit as well. At this point I have no idea whether this is an xmonad bug or an xscreensaver bug.
I don't think this problem is xscreensaver specific, and I would argue is a red-herring. I too find for no apparent reason that after sometime, Firefox no longer responds to keyboard focus unless it is either moved to the floating layer and retiled or a new window is opened. This will be an issue with Firefox though, and not of XMonad itself. How best to fix it (whether XMonad can send a synthetic event to Firefox or not) is still something I am pondering. -- Thomas Adam