[openbox] weird stuff

[Ryan Freeman]

oddly enough, i've had the exact same problem happen to me twice now.
exactly as you described, too. all my apps such as gkrellm and gaim
are still active and i usually have to go and kill stuff remotely. i was
thinking it was just a weird fluke but now that i've read this post i'm
starting to think otherwise...

- ryan

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 06:35:05 -0500
Richard Witt <rich at bowforiamroot.net> wrote:

> not sure if i should post this to the bugzilla or not. after rc3 i
> have had a weird problem. This happnes on both my work box and my home
> box. Both running gentooo, but compile openbox from the site and not
> from portage. Now for the problem:
> 	Every now and then i just lose the keyboard and the ability to
> click on a window with the mouse. the mouse will still move across the
> screen but it never changes how it looks. The mouse is the "I" looking
> shape like when you have your mouse over a terminal. I havent been
> able to specifically reporoduce this at any given point. Usually the
> programs running, the ones i almost always have running, are 2-4 rxvt
> and/or xterm windows, irssi in a rxvt term, licq with the dock option,
> gaim, gkrellm2, xmms, and either mozilla or mozillafirebird. At work
> add mozillathunderbird to this list. I can go to another box and ssh
> in and kill one of the apps like gaim/licq/mozilla* and i can
> temporarily get control back but just a minute or two later it does
> the same thing. Also any commands i sent via keyboard or mouse to the
> screen while it was being nonresponsive then take affect. Clicking on
> the x for one of the windows, if i have hit ctrl+alt+backspace or any
> other type command sent to X or the window manager, it takes affect as
> soon as i kill one of the apps.
> 	Its boggling me and i cant seem to "make" it happen. sometimes i
> can go all day and others just maybe a few hours or not even that long
> and it does it. I usually have to kill X or get out of it and then
> restart my X session for it to stop for any amount of time. At first i
> thought it had something to do with licq, but i stopped using it for a
> while and it continued to do this. When this happens, none of my
> programs themselves become unresponsive. my irssi window keeps
> scrolling and if someone is sending me messages in gaim it keeps going
> also. I am at a loss because i cant even get it to coredump and do a
> backtrace on it. Any suggestions? I am loving ob3 since i started
> using it in alpha stages, but if this continues i am goign to have to
> stop using it because its very unproductive :( . 
> 
> Thanks for any help. 
> 
> -- 
> Richard Witt
> Monticello Technologies "Technology that Works"
> http://monticello.biz
> 


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