slagter.maarten
February 20th, 2013, 03:50 PM
Dear all,
I've been experiencing a nuisance while trying to finish up a big report.
Every once in a while (1 or 2 minutes) my V, B, Z and Spacebar drop out, meaning that they don't function anymore.
I found a non-specific, random, way to fix it, namely by successively hitting combinations of Ctrl, Fn, Windows, L-Alt (on the left side of spacebar) and Alt Gr, Menu and R-Ctrl (on the right side of spacebar). Thing is, I can't find out what specifically causes the said keys to freeze, so I also don't know how to prevent it in the future.
I'm pretty sure that this is not a hardware problem, as I tried to use an external keyboard and experienced the same problem at the exact same keys.
Am I hitting some key combinations by accident that expects me to hit the said keys? Nothing happens though...
If you have any input, please share it :), my annoyance with this thing is increasing by the minute...
Oddly enough, while writing this post, I have been unable to recreate this 'bug'.
Ubuntu 12.10, using Gnome fallback and writing in GVim, but the error affects all typing boxes.
Thanks!
I've been experiencing a nuisance while trying to finish up a big report.
Every once in a while (1 or 2 minutes) my V, B, Z and Spacebar drop out, meaning that they don't function anymore.
I found a non-specific, random, way to fix it, namely by successively hitting combinations of Ctrl, Fn, Windows, L-Alt (on the left side of spacebar) and Alt Gr, Menu and R-Ctrl (on the right side of spacebar). Thing is, I can't find out what specifically causes the said keys to freeze, so I also don't know how to prevent it in the future.
I'm pretty sure that this is not a hardware problem, as I tried to use an external keyboard and experienced the same problem at the exact same keys.
Am I hitting some key combinations by accident that expects me to hit the said keys? Nothing happens though...
If you have any input, please share it :), my annoyance with this thing is increasing by the minute...
Oddly enough, while writing this post, I have been unable to recreate this 'bug'.
Ubuntu 12.10, using Gnome fallback and writing in GVim, but the error affects all typing boxes.
Thanks!