[arch-general] Keyboad in KDE locks up

[Leonid Grinberg]

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 at 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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