I went back to try the mouse disabling suggestion again. This time, I fired up gconf-editor rather than run the suggested commandline. I noticed I had both a gnome_settings_daemon and a gnome-settings-daemon. The suggested command line above uses hyphens, but the entry with underscores has the most complete set of entries, so the correct command line is probably:
gconftool-2 --set --type boolean /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/plugins/mouse/active false Anyway, running the daemon with mouse disabled, generates the following on the console: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gnome-settings-daemon --sync ** (gnome-settings-daemon:4295): WARNING **: The X Server does not support the XRandR extension. Runtime resolution changes to the display size are not available. ** (gnome-settings-daemon:4295): WARNING **: numlock: XkbQueryExtension returned an error ** (gnome-settings-daemon:4295): WARNING **: Neither XKeyboard not Xfree86's keyboard extensions are available, no way to support keyboard autorepeat rate settings ** (gnome-settings-daemon:4295): WARNING **: Unable to start a11y_keyboard manager: XKB functionality is disabled. xrdb: "*Label.background" on line 220 overrides entry on line 150 xrdb: "*Text.background" on line 226 overrides entry on line 191 xrdb: "*Label.foreground" on line 232 overrides entry on line 151 xrdb: "*Text.foreground" on line 238 overrides entry on line 192 ** (gnome-screensaver:4304): WARNING **: screensaver already running in this session The program 'gnome-settings-daemon' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'. (Details: serial 5046 error_code 3 request_code 20 minor_code 0) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ -- Error starting gnome-settings-daemon while logged in via vnc https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/239342 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
