Comment 290 for bug 124406

I'm seeing this on lucid on one desktop machine and one Dell Inspiron - particularly frustrating as my job entails staying connected at work during office hours. I do not, ever, use or touch the windows key.

Some or all of the following behaviour might be coincidence, but it might contain useful information, or be worth a try for other users. Probably not a good idea for me to try and investigate it now, as it's already stopped me working once today.

Quite often I will be typing quickly and will lock the desktop before I realise it's happened. Restarting X precipitously is hugely undesirable for my work.

My current workaround is to ctrl-alt F$whatever and try to login, but unfortunately that breaks sporadically too and I end up typing ^[l^[o^[g^[i^[n and presumably ^[p^[a^[s^[s^[w^[o^[r^[d.

If I'm able to log in before I run out of ttys, the problem tends to go away for a while.

Plugging in a USB keyboard has no effect on the problem.