9 Jul
2008
9 Jul
'08
8:46 p.m.
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 04:55:04PM -0300, Maurício wrote:
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
Yes, an application can prevent ctrl-alt-backspace. What I generally do is alt-sysrq-r (puts the keyboard in raw mode), then ctrl-alt-F1 to switch to a virtual terminal and fix things from there. Cheers, Spencer Janssen