[Bug 292766] Keyboard input does not work in Kile or Kate

[Tim Barber]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292766

--- Comment #4 from Tim Barber <timothy.andrew.barber at gmail.com> ---
Sorry for not responding as I had kind of given up on Kile in Windows. 
However, now I am experiencing similar problems with the keyboard input after
upgrading from 11.10 to 12.04.  This is really frustrating as documents (.tex
files) that worked fine before, now no longer allow me to type in them!  I can
select and scroll with the mouse but no typing!!!!  Funny thing too is that it
only happens for a few documents.  I did receive some warning that I haven't
seen before when I first opened Kile after upgrading and it was restoring my
previous session.  Something to the effect that a line had too many characters?
 Sorry, but I foolishly didn't pay attention to it and checked the box not to
notify me again :(.  Could there be an issue with the folder and file name
structure being too long?  I figure this would be an issue in Windows only, but
this is the only thing I can come up with right now.

Here is a post on askubuntu.com where someone is having similar yet different
situation with Kile and keyboard issues.

kile does not get keyboard input, respond to Alt+F

I use 11.10 with gnome 3 and Unity. In either case, I use two KDE apps a lot -
kile and kate. Since the latest upgrade, I have observed a few problems:

a] I can never use Alt+F to select the file menu (works with other apps), yet
when I press Alt, kile's menu comes up in the status bar.

b] A few times every day, while using kile (haven't used kate as much
recently), the keyboard stops responding (just in the 'editor' portion, rather
than in structure-tree navigation). I cannot enter any text, but mouse works
fine. I usually restart kile to continue working.

One inconsistent way to reproduce it (multiple times today):

I cut text from one open document using Ctrl-X

switched to another document in the same kile window using Ctrl-Tab, then this
happened.

c] Sometimes, in kate, I can type in the editor but the keyboard won't work in
the 'File open dialog'.

How do I fix the above?

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