On 09/25/2013 08:06 AM, Ian Malone wrote:
On 25 September 2013 13:01, Ian Malone <ibmalone(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 24 September 2013 19:33, Tod Thomas <fr33zone(a)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