X stops receiving mouse clicks

[Marius Gedminas]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 05:57:00PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> no, actually. this is how input devices work. the physical devices are
> abstracted away through the virtual core pointer. all events go through this
> core pointer device, and if an application grabs it then events are no
> longer sent to anyone else. same with the keyboard.
> hence if you have a rogue grab, all devices seem to stop working.

Are there any debugging facilities for finding out which X client has
the grab?

I once spent an hour killing all processes one by one until I found the
one responsible (gnome-settings-daemon):
http://mg.pov.lt/blog/xorg-snafu.html

Marius Gedminas
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