Florian G. Pflug wrote:
>
> It took me a while to find out how exactly to reproducte the hang (It
> would happen to me about once a day when using pgadmin3 heavily on
> gnome/metacity, but when trying to reproduce it, I couldn't).
>
> You have to select some text, and then _doubleclick_ on the selected
> part. When I do this, the cursor is changes to some strange shape (
> Kind of a upper-left corner with a "+"-sign inside). Ever click is
> ignored, but the keyboard remains working (I can edit text in the
> sql-editor). When I press Alt-f in this state, the File-Menu opens,
> the cursor resumes it's normal shape, and clicks are handled again.
>
> If, however, the sql-editor looses focus while in the "funny mode", then
> I know of now way to get X working again apart from changing to a
> console, and killling pgadmin3.
>
Aha! Reproduced. The doubleclick is the trick.
But on my system once this happens that's that. No keyboard rescue, and
it doesn't matter who has focus, only way to rescue is to go to another
system and ssh in and kill pgadmin3.