Sudden Serious Keyboard Problems

[henshu70]

Hi,

I am running Kubuntu 12.04 64-bit on my ASUS N55SF. Until recently everything was fine concerning my keyboard, however, lately there are some some serious issues appearing. Randomly, I must say, as sometimes there are no problems. One, the numeric pad simply stops working. Not completely, mostly just numbers, other things are working. Second, when I type in some applications, e.g. Thunderbird or LibreOffice, I need to be literally hitting the keys on the keyboard really hard and slowly, otherwise I am skippig about half of the letters. I would really appreciate any help or an idea what could be wrong.

Cheers

[SecretCode]

Could be an accessibility settings problem - perhaps the "slow keys" filter is getting activated.

Have a look in System Settings > Accessibility > Keyboard filters tabs and Activation Gestures tab

[jlittle]

The "Blur" desktop effect can do stuff like that. Really. Although, for me, it was worse than that, the mouse was affected too.

Regards, John

[henshu70]

Thank you all for your answers. Unfortunately, Keyboard filters is not the solution nor is Blur desktop effect. And the issue is getting worse, now whatever I do, I can not type some characters in Slovak localisation. Well, I guess I will wait for Quantal and hope the same thing does not happen there as it is quite seriously effecting my productivity.

[SecretCode]

Create a new user account as a test, log in to it and see if the problem also occurs there. If it doesn't, then the problem is due to something in your ~/.kde/ settings (or some autostarted process).