I have had issues similar to this, I found it was solved by switching off compositing, as compiz was grabbing various sets of keystrokes before they could get to the application.
Cheers, Matt H On 28 Jul 2015 09:44, "Roman Haefeli" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 01:09 +0200, s p wrote: > > > Somehow my Ubuntu refuses to input tilde in pd. > > > > It works a couple of times when I start pd, then it just simply won't > > input any character ... Any idea what could be the problem? This is > > really annoying. > > No idea, sorry. But I experience similar problems and I may add some > more details. > > When I start pd, I usually can type tilde characters. After switching to > another application and then back to Pd, I can't type tildes anymore in > Pd. And there seems to be no way to restore tilde-typing ability until I > restart Pd. Actually, it is not only the tilde character, but all > characters of the same key cannot be typed anymore (^,`,~). On a Swiss > German layout it is the key left of back space. > > After the problem has been triggered, [keyname] still shows the correct > characters, while [key] only outputs 0 for ^, ` and ~. > > This problem occurs only on one of two machines with similar setup: > > #1: Ubuntu 14.04 i386, Pd 0.46.6 from git, Intel graphics driver > -> Problem can be triggered > > #2: Ubuntu 14.04 i383, Pd 046.6 from git, Nvidia proprietary driver > -> Problem cannot be triggered > > I mention graphics drivers specifically, because there were some reports > about Pd crashing X11 while typing in certain Ubuntu setups with Intel > drivers. Maybe this problem is related. > > Roman > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > >
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