Hello, I'm having this strange problem happening in KDE (Kubuntu Dapper). When I work with any text-editor (or anywhere else for that matter), I don't use the mouse much, so I select text by holding the shift-key (and sometimes the ctrl-key) and using the arrow-keys and the home/end-keys. This works as one would expect, but every 5 seconds or so, KDE acts as if I suddenly let go of the shift-key even if I didn't. The effect is that the text I'm selecting is unselected once I press the arrow-keys again, though what I want is obviously to keep selecting more text. This seems to happen every 5 seconds regardless of what is pressed - it's as if the keyboard is reset every 5 seconds. If I wait for 2 seconds after a "reset" and then hold the shift-key, it'll stop working after 3 seconds and so on. I've tried turning on and off the various keyboard-features in the KDE Control Center, but nothing seems to be helping. As far as I know, it's always been like this, but it wasn't in Gnome, and it doesn't happen if I use a basic WM like Fluxbox or IceWM or whathaveyou. Anyone have some idea what might be causing this, and how to fix it? Roy W. Andersen -- ensnared@xxxxxxxxx / http://roy.skyggenesdal.org/ "Hey! What kind of party is this? There's no booze and only one hooker!" - Bender, Futurama ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.