[kde-linux] keyboard freeze under 3.5.5

[Paul Kaplan]

On Thursday 30 November 2006 2:08 pm, david wrote:
> Frank Reifenstahl wrote:
> > just that happened to me. I identified vmware as culprit catching and
> > holding keyboard input. Don't know if you're running vmware, but sounds
> > at least like a similiar problem and maybe you run another non-KDE app
> > misbehaving like that.
>
I was running vmware, but even after killing vmware, the problem remained.  It 
was clearly a corrupted file in ~/.kde.

> I seem to recall encountering something like that (keyboard input not
> working) about a year ago, except that it happened the moment the K
> login screen came up. Before that appeared, the keyboard would work fine
>   at GRUB and if I moused to the console login option. No VMWare
> involved. Sorry, I don't remember what fixed it.