I'm using Debian Etch on a laptop with KDE (everything is stable version unless otherwise noted). I've had problems in the past where some app would crash, or seg-fault (or possibly some other error would happen) and as a result, the screen saver wouldn't work, or the keyboard repeat would stop working, and I'd have to go into kcontrol to re-enable the keyboard repeat or re-enable the screensaver. This hasn't happened anymore for quite a few months. I recently intalled akregator for rss feeds. It seg-faulted once when I was downloading feeds and it froze up (about 30-40 feeds). After I restarted it, it worked normally. Shortly thereafter (and it may not be related to akregator's seg-fault), I couldn't use the keyboard anymore, because every key press was resulting in a combo key press as if I was holding down the CTRL key (I wasn't). So I couldn't type in a shell window (konsole), couldn't type a url in konqueror, couldn't click on the start button (the K icon on the kicker panel) to start any applications in the menu, I couldn't start an app via ALT-F2 because I couldn't type anything in the window, etc. Every keypress was as if I was holding down the CTRL key during the other keypresses (pressing j would result in a newline in shell/konsole, pressing the tab button would change desktops as if it was a CTRL tab press, rotating the mouse wheel would change font sizing instead of scrolling, etc.).
Anyone have a solution on how to fix this without restarting X (which is what I had to do after saving/downloading nearly a hundred open tabs, which wasn't easy considering I couldn't type anything and the delete key was erasing entire words instead of individual letters/spaces)? I tried to find a setting in kcontrol that was related to CTRL always being pressed/activated, or some related settings in keyboard areas of kcontrol or locality settings, or shortcuts, etc. I couldn't find any solution. Any help on this would be really appreciated in case it happens again. Especially if it is related to akregator seg-faulting, as I finally joined the crowd and found how useful an rss reader is. I'd like to continue using it, especially this particular one as it integrates with kde and uses libraries (and memory) already in use by other kde apps. tia for any help, Di. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
