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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > 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 > > What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. > (Punch, 1855) >
