It does often happen when I'm typing something, or using <Alt>-[number] to switch tabs in Firefox, but this might just be coincidence -- especially since this is, as I said, a laptop, I tend to use the keyboard as much as I can. As far as global shortcuts go, I only installed yakuake recently and this happened before I installed it. It *might* be associated with switching virtual desktops, though. 2009/3/4 Bram Schoenmakers <lists@bramschoenmakers.nl>:
On Wednesday 04 March 2009 01:35:57 Leonid Grinberg wrote:
Hello Leonid,
Every once in a while -- not too frequently to be unusable, but certainly enough to be annoying -- the keyboard in KDE will simply lock up. Mouse will still work fine, and keyboard inputs that don't go through KDE -- switching to virtual terminals, resetting X via <ctrl>-<alt>-backspace still work (and, indeed, resetting X and logging back in is the only thing that fixes it). I can't see any real pattern as to when this happens -- programs that I basically always have running, though, are Pidgin, Firefox and keytouchd, as well as, obviously, plasma, etc. I am running the vanilla KDE 4.2 packages.
Thanks in advance. This is really starting to become annoying.
Maybe it is the same bug which is open for quite some time in KDE Bugzilla [1]. I had this problem too before, on Gentoo Linux with KDE 3.5.x. This has something to do with the global shortcuts and I didn't notice that anyone had a real clue what triggered it. I wouldn't be surprised if it is still in KDE 4.x.
Perhaps the Gentoo bug [2] may contains some pointers too.
So, do you know if the problem is triggered by using global shortcuts (window manager related, or invoking Yakuake with F12)?
[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109322 [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129793
Kind regards,
-- Bram Schoenmakers
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