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On Donnerstag, 11. Mai 2023 23:41:04 CEST Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* mh@mike.franken.de <mh@mike.franken.de> [05-11-23 16:56]:
Hi *,
for some time now I have a problem with the keyboard on my notebook. It becomes extremely slow, i.e. only one or two keypresses are shown every 10 seconds. Special keyboard shortcuts like Alt-F4 or Ctrl-F5 are working as expected. Switching to a Linux console with Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] is still working, too. In the Linux console typing works without any problems then. Switching back to KDE again/still shows the problem. The only "solution" I found is to logout and login. For a while the keyboard then works as expected, until the same problem reoccurs. The intervals the problem shows up vary between once an evening to every 10 minutes. It happens in all programs one can type anything, i.e. OO Writer, graphical terminals or even dialog boxes of any kind. It happens with the internal notebook keyboard and also with an external USB keyboard.
Machine: Type: Convertible System: Dell product: XPS 13 9310 2-in-1 v: N/A
´ openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230509
Any idea, what the reason might be and what to do against it?
you have something sucking your cpu/memory. check when it slows using top or htop. then determine why the errant process exists.
No, there is nothing remarkable in the process list. And I can do whatever I want using the mouse - even starting to play a video is no problem in this case. And if it would be a memory or cpu problem, shouldn't that affect typing in the linux console, too?