Recently I have had two occasions when KDE stopped responding to the keyboard. The mouse worked, but not the keyboard (not even Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to the console).
In both cases something (possibly a dialog) appeared and then disappeared just before it froze. I looked in .kde/share/config for recently changed files, and compared them to other machines I had. It turned out that the problem was kaccessrc which should read (i.e. what works on other machine):- [Keyboard] GestureConfirmation=false Gestures=false but when frozen read:- [Keyboard] GestureConfirmation=true Gestures=true SlowKeys=true Reading http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/forums/showthread.php/17516- keyboard-not-working-in-KDE it would seem this is a known problem, but it does seem odd that once this is set there is nothing visible to mark that slow keys mode is enabled, and no obvious way to get out of it. Apparently simply holding down each key for a while would do it, but that is not something that I would naturally do. Obviously for some people this is a useful feature, but it would be nice to have something like a tray entry that I can click on with the mouse in order to mark that this is happening and to turn if off. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
