From: chris@mshome.net   
      
   On 12/12/2022 15:15, John Smith wrote:   
   > 	This is happening under Virtual Box in Slackware 15.0. Since the   
   > VM is Debian 11, this may be more a Debian kind of thing, but Slackware   
   > people seem to be more savvy when it comes to such technical details.   
   >   
   > 	I have this Debian 11 VM running Xfce. I killed the screensaver   
   > and power manager daemon in this Xfce session, for I have no need for   
   > them. When I left this sit for a while (maybe half an hour or so) on   
   > trying to do so the keyboard is completely unresponsive in this VM. Only   
   > the keyboard - the mouse is still working fine.   
   >   
   > 	The thing is, when I elicit a software keyboard from Virtual Box,   
   > by doing Input -> Keyboard -> Soft Keyboard at the Virtual Box menu in   
   > the window where the VM is running, I can type characters all right in   
   > the VM - for example, into a terminal emulator already running in that VM   
   > - and from that point onward I can use my real keyboard in that VM   
   > without any problems - until such time that I stop using it for half an   
   > hour or so again.   
   >   
   > 	This seems to point in the direction of some issue with Virtual   
   > Box itself. Any ideas?   
   >   
      
   AIUI, it's a problem with the (x and) xfce screensaver(s) in the virtual   
   machine. Remove them both (from Debian), don't just disable them.   
      
      
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