Thanks to all who replied, especially the snark. I'm replying this way because mailings from the list have been disabled. Excessive bounces, they say. the system in question is a laptop, so there's only one kbd, and its not USB. The problem is that for no apparent reason typing on the kbd does not produce and input to, say, gnome-terminal. This happens with any app that accepts kbd input. It does not apply to the mouse. Logout-login (via GDM) cures the problem, until the next time, so the kbd is not broken. Pointers to bugzilla and fedora forum are much appreciated. I'll try the workarounds suggested. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org