applications freezing in lucid

[Jon]

Do you still get the problem if you disable the screensaver?

On Fri 13/08/2010 at 20:23:20, Michael Weaver wrote:
> I have mentioned this on the Orca list but not sure if this is an Orca
> or a Ubuntu problem but I seem to hav3e this problem where after a
> certain length of time, applications freeze in Lucid and I don't think
> it has anything to do with having to type a password because the
> screensaver has come on and I am asked for my password to unlock the
> screen.
> What seems to happen is that either applications refuse to either launch
> or if they are launching which I think they possibly might be sometimes
> is that Orca doesn't read them like it isn't focusing on the app I am
> trying to use.
> I am guessing that they may be launching because sometimes if I press
> ALT plus F4 I get back to the application which may be running at the
> time or it will go to the desktop.
> I thought this application freezing problem might have had something to
> do with how i installed Lucid or even an old disk which wasn't
> installing properly but I have done a fresh install with the same CD and
> even tried burning a fresh one and doing another install only I am
> having this same strange problem.
> Has anyone else noticed this problem?
> I also thought it might have had something to do with installing certain
> software such as Extra pluggins only it does this thing without such
> software being installed.
> This is a problem which even sometimes causes me to have to something as
> drastic as pressing and holding the power button of my computers as CTRL
> ALT delete doesn't appear to work these days.
> It is a problem which I wonder if anyone else has noticed.
> If it is a serious problem I have found unfortunately I don't have the
> technical knowhow to be able to file a bug on it, create a report or
> whatever on the thing.
> This problem may for example happen when using Transmission when it has
> been left for a while and you try to for example open Evolution but this
> even happens with single apps when you have left the PC for a while and
> sometimes it acts like it loggs out and it wants your username and
> password again and sometimes entering these details unfreezes the PCs
> and sometimes it doesn't so it seems to me to be a strange problem.
> 
> 
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