[arch-general] Keyboad in KDE locks up

[Dan Vratil]

On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 19:35:57 -0500, Leonid Grinberg <lgrinberg at gmail.com>
wrote:

Hi,
this happens to me sometimes too. I found out, that I just have to switch
to console, restart HAL daemon and it works again, so I'd say it could be
problem in Xserver, but I'm really not sure about it.

Dan

> Hello,
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> Leonid Grinberg