Keyboard locking up in FC17

[Tod Thomas]

On 09/25/2013 08:06 AM, Ian Malone wrote:
> On 25 September 2013 13:01, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 24 September 2013 19:33, Tod Thomas <fr33zone at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I've read that fc17 is end of life but maybe someone has run into this.  I'm
>>> running fc17, latest upgrades, using XFCE, and periodically the keyboard
>>> just stops working, mouse is fine.  I end up having to mouse over ALL of my
>>> open windows saving and closing.  Once I logoff and logon everything works
>>> normally.  I've checked the Xorg log, messages, dmesg, everything I can
>>> think of but its sill happening.  I even tried turning off the screen saver
>>> but that didn't help either.  It happens inconsistently which makes it even
>>> more annoying :)
>>>
>>> Not sure there's a single answer given the possible moving parts involved.
>>> If nobody can think of anything off the top of their head could someone
>>> suggest a good way to try and debug?  I'll be upgrading here eventually but
>>> right now the timing is not optimal.
>>>
>> Can you change to a virtual console (Ctl-Alt-Fn where n!=1) when this
>> happens? (And if not can you do it normally?) N.B. Alt-F1 should get
>> you back to the desktop. Might help in working out whether this is a
>> problem with X or with XFCE.
>>
> Also, may want to check you've not accidentally turned on some
> accessibility option like sticky keys. (This used to catch me out in
> KDE because a long shift keypress enabled it, until I got fed up
> enough to turn that off.)
>
>


Good idea, I have not tried the virtual console check, I will the next 
time it happens.  Any idea how to turn off sticky keys in XFCW?  I found 
a suggestion using xkbset.


Thanks - Tod