Debian squeeze / Gnome - GUI dying?

Question

linux

About a year ago, I ran into a problem: at any random moment, the graphical interface simply stops responding to input devices . All applications continue to work, messages in IM come, pop-ups appear, the interesting thing is that the cursor is moved by the mouse, but nothing can be done. I sit and watch.
A few months ago it was solved by switching to the adjacent desktop and back ( Ctrl + Alt + right ). Now even this does not help (although the problem has become much less common - once or twice a month). You have to open the console and restart gdm . In the same console, I restarted hal and dbus - nothing too.
Over the past year, I think, everything that is possible has been updated: both xorg , and gthumb (sometimes everything happened when it was closed and when working in Gimp ), and nvidia drivers , and several complete upgrades.
gnome: 2.30+1
xorg: 7.5+6
compiz: 0.8.4-4
nvidia-glx: 256.53 That's
it. Faced?

Answer 1

Is it a matter of the gnome?
Try to create a new user and work from him for a while, with a clean profile. Perhaps the problem is in the settings.

Answer 2

xs or not, I have met the described symptoms. At the same time, the mouse click fell off, everything looked the same as yours, but when you hovered over the button (it was normally highlighted, but did not press) and the enter worked. The problem turned out to be in the evdev driver.

Answer 3

On a beech, exactly the same symptoms. But perhaps the roots are not from there, because in an instant they pass by poking a finger into the touchpad. Didn't understand the reason.

Answer 4

I have the same problem. Ubuntu 10.04. Already fed up with it.
Doubts arose right now. Look, in your Options->Keyboard tab "Mouse buttons" is checked "Allow to control the pointer from the keyboard"?