Re: [opensuse] keyboard problem

On 07/08/2017 05:51 AM, Knurpht - Gertjan Lettink wrote:

Op zaterdag 8 juli 2017 14:44:00 CEST schreef James Bunnell:

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Patrick Shanahan:

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* James Bunnell [07-08-17 08:08]:

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for some reason, i can type in here, but if i try to type in the root password for network, or do a search in the box on the menu in plasma, there is no response, what could be wrong?

I have experienced odd keyboarding problems that seemed to be solved by switching to one of the consoles and back. you might try it.

<ctrl><alt> type a few chars <ctrl><alt><f7>

if that doesn't work, try restarting plasmashell,

kquitapp5 plasmashell && sleep 2 && kstart5 plasmashell & disown

I am assuming you do not have some weird keyboard setup.

I rebooted of all things and it's all ok now. It started when I added Gnome, Mate, and one or two others, so it probably got confused. However, it seems fine now. Thank you, Patrick.

James, could you next time please provide such info in your opening post? Makes helping out much easier for others and issues solved faster for you.

I experienced the same thing yesterday. It was after a routine update via the software update tray tool in KDE. The update did not have a kernel update, so I did not reboot. Typing in a Konsole worked fine. Typing in a password into a pop-up password box refused to honor the r key as well as a few others. Ctrl-Alt-F3 and back again to Ctrl-Alt-F7 did not clear the error. Logout (via the kde menus), then log in again cleared it. Sadly, I do not remember what needed the password, but since it was a KDE/plasma session it was probably some standard KDE dialog. Having never seen this in several years I was surprised. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org