2008/11/13 diane mittnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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. >
Enable the Show Keyboard Status applet to ensure that you do not have Sticky Keys enabled, or that for some other reason Ctrl is being held. Note that pressing a modifier key 5 times in quick succession activates Sticky Keys. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü
