Re: keyboard is intermittently ignored

[Jay Belanger]

> 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