[arch-general] Keyboad in KDE locks up

[Bram Schoenmakers]

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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