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Keyboard Buffer Full, Process Table Filling Up

posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 02:41pm on 2007-04-16 under

Bedroom Linux box unuseable again yesterday. This time she fell asleep on the "screen snapshot" key. I had to telnet in from a different computer to kill enough processes for the console to start responding again.

Let's see whether sticky tape along the edge of the keyboard works. She's adorable with her head resting there, but then she stretches that extra centimeter, leans on a key, and bad things happen.

Silver lining: I now know how to capture a screen dump in Gnome...

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posted by [identity profile] skreidle.livejournal.com at 06:43pm on 2007-04-16
I don't know if anyone's written such a script for Linux, but I know there have been applications written to analyze keyboard input, and discard it if it seems likely to be non-human entry. :)
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 07:03pm on 2007-04-16
The ones I've run into so far have all been Windows-only. At least one is supposed to make annoying-to-cats noises when it detects feline keyboard input. (Apparently the "keyboard buffer full" beeping doesn't bother Perrine.)
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posted by [identity profile] dianec42.livejournal.com at 08:47pm on 2007-04-16
The ones I've run into so far have all been Windows-only.

Just for the record, one of my cow orkers did one for the Mac one year at MacHack, aroun 1997 or 1998. I know that doesn't actually help.

What about the cardboard box that the keyboard actually came in? Someone should have something similar if you don't have the exact one.
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posted by [identity profile] vvalkyri.livejournal.com at 07:02pm on 2007-04-16
maybe just start leaving a keyboard box on top of the keyboard?
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 07:05pm on 2007-04-16
I've been keeping an eye out for a suitable box. Only problem I foresee with that is when I fall asleep at the keyboard myself, without managing to cover it before I nod off. I'm still holding that idea in mind ib case the sticky tape doesn't do the trick.
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posted by [personal profile] mneme at 08:17pm on 2007-04-16
Wow, she's good.

Er...you could just lock the screen. Or (gasp!) unplug the keyboard.

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posted by [personal profile] dsrtao at 08:37pm on 2007-04-16

I understand you are frequently running on less than state-of-the-art machines. May I recommend switching to XFCE? It's about the same level of pretty as GNOME, and built on GTK+, but much less RAM-intensive. And it's easy to disable things like screen captures.
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posted by [identity profile] garnet-rattler.livejournal.com at 10:00pm on 2007-04-17
I used to find fascinating key-stroke lines in my various proggys and even help screens up ~courtesy of various cats. It turned out that an ultra-low tech solution has worked for me over fourteen years and through the passage of at least a dozen different cats. And it doesn't appear to lose effectiveness over the years for any particular cat, either!

I took an ancient translucent vinyl keyboard cover (from NorthGate Systems, for those who remember them; Seriously ancient!) and put it over both keyboard and trackball. Apparently the texture is the key feature. No more trouble with cats on keys or mieces. Now its falling apart (after more than a decade) and I need to find something similar enough to work. I'll let you know if I find a workable substitute.
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