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Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately I'm running gnome, not KDE and haven't run a KDE app since last booting.<BR>
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On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 15:53 -0500, C Hamel wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Monday 17 April 2006 06:02, ruscook wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Hi folks,</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> As you can see, xorg has decided to use 200mega byte of virtual memory</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> and evolution and epiphany have also gone mad. At the same time I've</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> lost the use of the shift and control keys i.e. they don't modify other</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> keys at all but alt still works. - A reboot of X i.e. ctrl-alt-backspace</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> fixes this.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Here's the top output for these apps.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> 8228 root 15 0 200m 22m 5384 S 22.4 2.3 49:11.02 Xorg</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> 7523 ruscook 15 0 148m 48m 12m S 3.5 4.8 5:40.23 epiphany</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> 7527 ruscook 15 0 234m 72m 16m S 0.2 7.2 0:37.08</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> evolution-2.6</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Does anyone else have this problem?</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Kind Regards Russell</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> ==================</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> <A HREF="http://www.windsorcycles.com.au">www.windsorcycles.com.au</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> <A HREF="mailto:sales@windsorcycles.com.au">sales@windsorcycles.com.au</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> ph. 02 4577 3209</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> bikes.no-ip.info</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Linux user #369094</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> ==================</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">At the risk of sounding like the proverbial 'broken record' --what's a </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">record??-- I discovered some time back that if one is using klipper, it is </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">probably a good idea to disable the 'Prevent empty clipboard' setting. The </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">behaviour you describe is along the line of what I was experiencing prior to </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">disabling it. KDE has had a long-standing problem with this, running over </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">several releases.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">If you're not running klipper, please accept my apologies/condolences. ;-)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">FWIW...</FONT>
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Kind Regards Russell<BR>
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www.windsorcycles.com.au<BR>
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