From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jay Belanger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: keyboard is intermittently ignored Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:55:34 -0500 Message-ID: <87vdywscx5.fsf@gmail.com> References: <488750AB.2000102@gnu.org> Reply-To: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216835766 6387 80.91.229.12 (23 Jul 2008 17:56:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:56:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 23 19:56:55 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KLiZt-0007hY-Uz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:56:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49648 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLiZ0-0000ph-O7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:55:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLiYv-0000nN-E4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:55:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLiYt-0000mT-W6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:55:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52520 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLiYt-0000mQ-QW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:55:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.truman.edu ([150.243.160.94]:52237 helo=uranium.truman.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KLiYt-0000HY-Cc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:55:39 -0400 Original-Received: from uranium.truman.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 78DA75FE23; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:55:36 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from belanger-laptop (belanger-laptop.truman.edu [150.243.64.6]) by uranium.truman.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 662633CB5B; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:55:35 -0500 (CDT) In-Reply-To: <488750AB.2000102@gnu.org> (Sam Steingold's message of "Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:39:23 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:101321 Archived-At: > emacs cvs head on amd64: For another data point, emacs cvs on x86. > every now and then the keyboard is ignored for a while, then everything > is back to normal. > mouse works: I can select, paste, use menus (including undo), but the > keyboard is silently ignored: I can type into xterm (actually, gnome > terminal), thunderbird (like I am doing now), caps lock and num lock > work fine - but emacs does not respond to any keypresses (including C-g > and C-]). I have a similar problem, but I never waited long enough to see if keyboard input is restored. I run emacs in stumpwm, when I haven't typed for a while, the computer's power saver blacks out the screen. Occasionally, when I start using the computer again, the keyboard is useless. I can use the mouse, and use it to exit emacs; when I restart it, it works fine. If the power saver blacks out the screen when another application is running, there is no problem when I start using the computer again. Jay