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Keyboard/Terminal freezes occasionally

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djevil
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Keyboard/Terminal freezes occasionally

#1 Post by djevil »

Hi,
I have this problem that my keyboard freezes sometimes.
It occurs mostly when I work in the terminal(konsole) but very seldom in other applications, too.
I'm using konsole with zsh and I purged and reinstalled both, which did not help.

How can I find out why this happens?

Regards djevil

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Re: Keyboard/Terminal freezes occasionally

#2 Post by sunrat »

Check for error messages. journalctl, dmesg, xsession-errors, xorg.log etc.
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Re: Keyboard/Terminal freezes occasionally

#3 Post by debiman »

are you saying this happens only in the terminal?
if so, you can troubleshoot:
does it still happen when you use a different terminal emulator? a different shell?

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Re: Keyboard/Terminal freezes occasionally

#4 Post by FinnJoye »

There is not really enough information to answer your question. For example, does just one terminal window become frozen, or the whole desktop? Do non-keyboard activities (mouse, etc.) continue to work? Can you log in from somewhere else when this happens? What application is running when this happens? It's worth noting that non-full-screen non-curses applications running on the terminal won't prevent your keypresses from showing up, because the kernel continues to do cooked mode terminal input processing, so even hung applications in a terminal won't usually cause the effect you're describing

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