desktop nonresponsive to keyboard. inadequately responsive to mouse

[David A. Kra]

This has happened a few times in the last week, after coming back to the machine after being away for a few minutes.

I cannot move windows with the mouse.

<alt><tab> to switch between windows does nothing.

Clicking on the desktop bar, Applications, Places, System does not produce drop downs to select from.

I can click on an item on an application's menu bar, it highlights, but the drop down doesn't happen.

I can click on a text input area, e.g. gedit, but do not see a cursor, and typing does not appear.

Clicking on the application's icon on the window top does nothing.

Keyboard accelerators, such as <alt>f to get the File drop down menu, do nothing.

<alt><control>Fn does bring up a text console. on the second try.

<alt><control>Fn gets me back to GUI.

After that:

Clicking on the application's terminate icon on the window top sometimes works.

<alt><control><backspace> causes X to restart, allowing me to log in again.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: metacity 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-41.91-generic-pae 2.6.32.59+drm33.24
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-41-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jul 9 11:17:31 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: metacity

[dino99 (9d9)]

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