[SOLVED] Strange behaviour of XFce after pressing certain keys

I noticed that when I press 'Ctrl' and hold it for a while all my currently opened windows will close and I am no longer able to access the Applications Menu on my panel until reboot.
I also noticed, that when I press Ctrl+Alt+Delete combination my xfce-session is 'terminated' and I am in console environment (with a login prompt).
Now, I don't know if this type of behaviour is normal, but I do not like it at all.
I know Ctrl+Alt+Delete should lock the screen, but why I am in console then?
And why after pressing 'Ctrl' all my currently opened Windows are gone? (or at least not visible and not minimized)
Any ideas?
Thanks,
P.S. I have slim set up to auto-login my user account, but I do not think this is relevant.
EDIT: Ok, fixed - I realized that I pressed some keys when I was changing the battery on my laptop and did not lock the screen :-) [Stupid me].
Last edited by MatejLach (2011-10-21 13:35:20)

swiergot wrote:(if memory serves)
Well, it doesn't. To make things worse, my sight is not good either. The devices are present in /dev and I did change configuration.
It turned out to be a permissions problem. I was doing some cleaning in /etc, getting rid of *.pacnew and *.pacsave and I apparently overwrote /etc/group so my user account lost its group assignments. The errors thrown by mplayer were a little confusing because they mentioned "no such file", while in reports from other users with similar problems I could clearly see "permission denied". Only when running mplayer with "-ao oss" it correctly reported "permission denied" on /dev/dsp.
KDE must be simply assigning permissions when it detects a new device, perhaps it has something to do with ConsoleKit. It would also explain why you have to actually be in Konsole when modprobing because it wouldn't work in a text console even with KDE running in the background.
Anyway, sorry for bothering. Have a nice day, or good night, depending on your timezone
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