lost keyboard

[Olivier Fourdan]

I had reports of a problem with xfglob that was causing the X server to
freeze.

This is due to a console application being started from X w/out
stdin/stdout pointing to valid devices.

Don't use xfglob if that happens to you.

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 19:00, Gino Peregrini wrote:
> My keyboard quite working suddenly. I was using find-file and playing a
> game. Nothing else active. I rebooted, opened a console and ran
> xfce_remove and then started a Gnome session. (I don't like rebooting, b
> ut without a keyboard, I was stuck. The mouse worked fine, thank
> goodness.)
> 
> I'm using some Ximian apps--mainly Evolution and Nautilis--on SuSE 8.0.
> 
> My questions: Does anyone have any idea why this happened? And how can I
> avoid/deal with it when I go back to XFce, as I want to? This problem
> seems similar to another one posted yesterday. 
> 
> Oh, I am using XFce 3.8.16.1
> 
> Overall, I like XFce a lot. But this incident bothers me.
> -- 
> Gino Peregrini
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