Comment 2 for bug 402892

As far as I can say this bug is not dependent on RapidSVN but must a general GNOME Problem. I had this behaviour often when using Epiphany and get it now when I am using my Wacom tablet. Once an drag&drop operation is triggered by accident, the cursor is stuck in the drop mode: i.e. it shows the little arrow beside an icon. The system will not respond to ESC or the like. If you are lucky, you can type into some textfield which provides some popup text (like the epiphany adress bar). If the popup of this textfield shows up, the cursor is reset.

The suggested solution given above does not work in Lucid Lynx since changing to another terminal using Alt+Ctrl+NR does not work quite well. Often it is impossible to change back to terminal 7. You will only see the X Log.