Keyboard locking up in FC17

[Ian Malone]

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.)


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