On 09/25/2013 08:06 AM, Ian Malone wrote:
On 25 September 2013 13:01, Ian Malone <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 24 September 2013 19:33, Tod Thomas <fr33zone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've read that fc17 is end of life but maybe someone has run into this. I'm
running fc17, latest upgrades, using XFCE, and periodically the keyboard
just stops working, mouse is fine. I end up having to mouse over ALL of my
open windows saving and closing. Once I logoff and logon everything works
normally. I've checked the Xorg log, messages, dmesg, everything I can
think of but its sill happening. I even tried turning off the screen saver
but that didn't help either. It happens inconsistently which makes it even
more annoying :)
Not sure there's a single answer given the possible moving parts involved.
If nobody can think of anything off the top of their head could someone
suggest a good way to try and debug? I'll be upgrading here eventually but
right now the timing is not optimal.
Can you change to a virtual console (Ctl-Alt-Fn where n!=1) when this
happens? (And if not can you do it normally?) N.B. Alt-F1 should get
you back to the desktop. Might help in working out whether this is a
problem with X or with XFCE.
Also, may want to check you've not accidentally turned on some
accessibility option like sticky keys. (This used to catch me out in
KDE because a long shift keypress enabled it, until I got fed up
enough to turn that off.)
Good idea, I have not tried the virtual console check, I will the next
time it happens. Any idea how to turn off sticky keys in XFCW? I found
a suggestion using xkbset.
Thanks - Tod
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