Bug 158214

Summary:	ALT key gets stuck
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdelibs	Reporter:	Marcel Partap <mpartap>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	finex, l.lunak, langec, sputnick
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Marcel Partap 2008-02-22 12:13:31 UTC

Version:           unknown (using 4.00.63 (KDE 4.0.63 >= 20080221), Gentoo)
Compiler:          x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.24-git18

After some time, the ALT key seems to get stuck, i.e. kde reacts as if it was pressed all the time, which means no normal interaction is possible anymore. Killing kded4 from terminal 'solves' the problem. This has started to appear only two weeks or so ago so it must have been introduced by some recent change.

Comment 1 David Faure 2008-02-22 12:49:16 UTC

Yep, I get this too.
Killing and restarting kwin seems to help, so I'm reassigning to kwin.

Comment 2 David Faure 2008-02-22 12:56:33 UTC

On Friday 22 February 2008, Marcel Partap wrote:
> Killing kded4 from terminal 'solves' the problem. 


Hmm, I hadn't noticed that line, sorry.
I'll try killing kded4 next time, can you try killing kwin next time? :-)

Comment 3 Marcel Partap 2008-02-22 13:11:38 UTC

killing both ALL the time anyways as they both screw up *a lot* XD
P.S.: right after clicking on commit both crash.. is this the start
of the much talked-about port of Marvin's human personality AI to KDE?

Comment 4 Vincenzo Di Massa 2008-02-23 23:52:20 UTC

I experience the same problem.
For me killing kwin does not solve the issue.
Killing kded4 always works.

Comment 5 Vincenzo Di Massa 2008-03-09 14:36:00 UTC

During the past weeks the problem 'evolved' (in trunk)...

Sometimes kwin stops responding (I need to kill it), but the Alt key problem dos not occur anymore.

When kwin dies however the keyboard is locked: I can only switch to vt1 (Ctrl+Alt+F1), and kill kwin from there.

I've read there could be a deadlock problem running kwin from X terminals.
I'm running my kde sessions (startkde) from a failsafe session's konsole. Could that be the reason of my problems?

Comment 6 Marcel Partap 2008-04-18 12:42:34 UTC

I've not run into this prob for some time now.. syncing up right now (hope plasma has settled down a bit *g), dont think will have to reopen this..

Comment 7 Michael Pyne 2008-05-11 21:41:32 UTC

*** Bug 161733 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Christoph Lange 2009-02-03 22:58:28 UTC

Isn't this a duplicate of bug 172462 as well?  Besides, I think this should still be open instead of WORKSFORME.