Do you still get the problem if you disable the screensaver? On Fri 13/08/2010 at 20:23:20, Michael Weaver wrote: > I have mentioned this on the Orca list but not sure if this is an Orca > or a Ubuntu problem but I seem to hav3e this problem where after a > certain length of time, applications freeze in Lucid and I don't think > it has anything to do with having to type a password because the > screensaver has come on and I am asked for my password to unlock the > screen. > What seems to happen is that either applications refuse to either launch > or if they are launching which I think they possibly might be sometimes > is that Orca doesn't read them like it isn't focusing on the app I am > trying to use. > I am guessing that they may be launching because sometimes if I press > ALT plus F4 I get back to the application which may be running at the > time or it will go to the desktop. > I thought this application freezing problem might have had something to > do with how i installed Lucid or even an old disk which wasn't > installing properly but I have done a fresh install with the same CD and > even tried burning a fresh one and doing another install only I am > having this same strange problem. > Has anyone else noticed this problem? > I also thought it might have had something to do with installing certain > software such as Extra pluggins only it does this thing without such > software being installed. > This is a problem which even sometimes causes me to have to something as > drastic as pressing and holding the power button of my computers as CTRL > ALT delete doesn't appear to work these days. > It is a problem which I wonder if anyone else has noticed. > If it is a serious problem I have found unfortunately I don't have the > technical knowhow to be able to file a bug on it, create a report or > whatever on the thing. > This problem may for example happen when using Transmission when it has > been left for a while and you try to for example open Evolution but this > even happens with single apps when you have left the PC for a while and > sometimes it acts like it loggs out and it wants your username and > password again and sometimes entering these details unfreezes the PCs > and sometimes it doesn't so it seems to me to be a strange problem. > > > > -- > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
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