kded4 eating keyboard events

Andreas Pakulat apaku at gmx.de
Thu Sep 25 13:11:01 BST 2008


On 25.09.08 12:50:09, Andreas Hartmetz wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 24 September 2008 01:03:09 schrieb Andreas Pakulat:
> > On 23.09.08 23:44:59, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm sorry having to wake up an old thread, but I thought the problem of
> > > kded4 locking up the keyboard events was solved. Apparently its not, at
> > > least I just hit that problem, that is after closing a konqueror window
> > > via Alt+f4 I've ended up with no keyboard response, so I'm believing
> > > that kded4 grabbed the keys from X11 and didn't release the keyboard.
> > >
> > > Is that not fully solved yet or am I the only one seeing this?
> >
> > Ok, it wasn't kded4 but kwin that was grabbing the keyboard - except
> > Ctrl+Alt+F1. I guess I managed to hit two shortcuts pretty fast after
> > another or something else screwed up state in kwin a bit...
> 
> When kded4 eats your keyboard it is often a lockup in an unrelated module, the 
> last one was in some KDirWatch backend. If it happens log in on the machine 
> using ssh and attach gdb to kded4. The piece of code you find yourself in 
> then is usually the culprit.

as I said it wasn't kded4, but kwin4. Unfortunately I only found that out
after killing it so until I hit the problem again - no backtrace

Andreas

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