On 5/12/2023 8:08 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* joe a <joea-lists@j4computers.com> [05-12-23 19:00]:
On 5/12/2023 4:39 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2023-05-11 22:54, mh@mike.franken.de wrote:
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?
I would try another desktop. XFCE, for instance.
Before that, I would watch the journal in a terminal while this happens (journalctl --follow).
I've found some laptops to "just do that" in a graphics environment. Random and a restart "fixes it" for a while. But, most of mine have been used/scrounged machines, so there is that.
I wrote it off to "shared memory issues", but never really had desktops without discreet/dedicated video cards and memory, to add support to that idea.
Meh, what do I know these days?
perhaps add an external keyboard and use it for a while ???
Worth a try if I run into that again.