This is totally unrelated and I apologize for putting it in this bug thread, feel free to email me privately on it if you want, but I've had no success with googling to even figure out where to report this. I guess it's pretty obscure. I'm clueless about what to open a bug against, if this is a bug. Maybe you can point me in the right direction?
On my HP Envy 15 with Ubuntu 12.04, it will get into this odd state where it doesn't answer mouse/touchpad clicks, or keyboard commands such as changing to another desktop (I have that set for alt-1 ~ alt-0, 10 virtual desktops). The mouse cursor moves normally, but nothing happens. However, I can still use the keyboard to type in whatever window has the focus on my current desktop. During this time, the wireless on/off light on F-12 is alternating between white (connected) and orange (off/connecting) with a fast blink. After anywhere from 15 seconds to a full minute, the wireless light stops blinking and goes back to solid white, then all of the key commands or mouse clicks will happen; it queues them up while in that state. Even stranger is that if it's in that state and I hit F12 (turns off the wireless) the problem immediately goes away and any pending actions immediately execute. If I run top in a shell and wait for it to happen (doesn't take long, it'll do it every few minutes), I see no unusual CPU consumption or high load averages. So far, nothing has jumped out at me from syslog, either. If you have any ideas where I should look for clues as to the issue, or if you know of any bugs that sound like this, I'd appreciate any pointers. I installed fglrx manually (and it's working) because I couldn't get it to install through jockey, if that might have any bearing on this. Thanks! Jonathan -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/984615 Title: Wrong syndaemon settings in system settings Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Description: Ubuntu precise (development branch) Release: 12.04 Problem: checking "Disable touchpad while typing does not actually disable it (at least not on my new HP Envy 15). The settings it causes to be used are: syndaemon -d -i 2.0 -K -R -t This only disables taps, which causes the cursor to run wldly around the screen while typing. "Not a problem!" you say? Try using focus follows mouse, especially with auto-raise, then come back and tell me that :-) The correct settings are: syndaemon -d -i 2.0 -K -R This completely disables the touchpad while typing, for two seconds. My workaround was to uncheck the box and add syndaemon, with my parms, to the Startup Applications. This is maybe not a blocker, but I think getting a bug fix out on this sooner rather than later would be good. Putting the workaround in the release notes might also be a good idea. It could save others the hours of research I've put in. 2 seconds also seems a bit long, I'm going to try 1.5 and 1.25 and see how that works out. Let me know if there's any other info you need or anything you'd like me to test. Thanks! To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/984615/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
