FYI: I started seeing similar issues around the time I made ~/.cache
into a symlink. Something like .cache/huggingface can be hundreds of
gigabytes (and individual tools like whisper can be large as well). As
people start to use machine learning workflows, this is likely to impact
more and more users, as there are good reasons not to keep cached models
on the same drive as everything else.

FWIW, this is almost impossible to debug:

1) I made this change at the same time as a system upgrade, and thought
that was connected. It's by complete fluke I found this

2) On my system, the behavior is not exclusive to snaps. Evince doesn't
take keyboard input either, but can be hacked with IBUS_USE_PORTAL=1. I
have not confirmed whether this is the same issue, but it feels
identical.

3) This is not the only keyboard issue.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1509058/input-delay-on-terminal-
ubuntu-22-04-4 These kinds of issues interplay in ways which make
debugging very hard.

<rant> Perhaps my memory is tinted, but I don't recall ever running into
these sorts of bugs on Ubuntu, or Debian before that, prior to around
2010. All these changes (X11 -> Wayland, apt -> snap, init.d -> a swarm
of replacements, window managers -> all-in-one Gnome, etc.) all feel
like second system effect and churn rather than progress. I can think of
dozens of ways what was there could have been incrementally improved
(rather than wrapped or replaced). Those ships have sailed, but I wish
we could just take a while to fix bugs, and to streamline / simplify /
pay off technical debt rather than to add more features. </rant>

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  Bug #2008279 reappears (loss of keyboard input for x11 snaps) if
  ~/.cache is a symlink

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