Bug 201381

Summary: directional keys mostly down stop working
Product: [Applications] konsole Reporter: Frank Schmidt <biest3000>
Component: generalAssignee: Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status: RESOLVED REMIND    
Severity: normal CC: adaptee, tel.devnull
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Frank Schmidt 2009-07-24 21:13:39 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.4)
Compiler:          gc c 4.4.0 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

As of FC10 and also FC11 and of course with the advent of kde 4 I experience this very annoying bug: after a typical period of 30mns - 1h for unknown reasons the down key on keyboard stops working. This seems not depend on the hardware since it happens on my HP pavilion zd8000 but also my MAC Pro both operating Fedora FC10 now FC11.
With some fiddling I can reset my boxes via: Regional & Language -> Keyboard Layout -> Enable keyboard layout -> Apply. But it will come back after 30 minutes again. It is general on any application, i.e. konsole, emacs etc
Comment 1 Tel 2010-01-29 14:35:32 UTC
Similar behavior for me, up and down keys stop working after a random period of time. Mainly happening in konsole, but it is now happening (as I type this) in konqueror. Left, right keys are not affected.

Konsole version: 2.3.2 
KDE 4.3.4 (KDE 4.3.4), Debian packages
Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.32-trunk-amd64
Debian squeeze amd64
Comment 2 Jekyll Wu 2011-07-30 20:01:35 UTC
Although I do not think konsole should be blamed in this report, does this problem still exist?
Comment 3 Jekyll Wu 2011-08-02 06:53:37 UTC
unlikely caused by konsole and does happen in KDE-4.7.0.