I have just done a fresh install of OpenSuse 11.3 I am using KDE4.
When I move my mouse and click on a text field, I start typing and the first few keypresses are ignored. Or if I stop typing and pause for a bit without moving the mouse or doing anything, then when I press the next key it is ignored again.
If I go to System settings -> accessibility, neither slow keys, bounce keys or sticky keys are ticked.
The effect of this is that if I momentarily pause for thought in the middle of writing then sometimes half a word can go missing. Unfortunately this makes the desktop extremely difficult to use as I am always having to check that all my key presses have been accepted. I am relatively fast at typing.
In ~/.kde4/share/config/kaccessrc, even though SlowKeys=false, changing SlowKeysDelay=500 to SlowKeysDelay=0 seems to solve the problem.
In System settings -> accessibility the slider only goes down to 50msec. Changing it in the config file effectively disables it even though it’s not supposed to be on. (I was on the verge of moving to Gnome even though I prefer KDE)
This means that there is a bug, My slow keys are on when they shouldn’t be.
Hmm, now that I have switched the computer on from cold the next day the problem seems to be back in full force even though the config file is unchanged. Because my solution seems to have stopped working I haven’t submitted a bug yet.
It’s not a problem with the mouse freezing, only the key presses being accepted for a few milliseconds when I first start typing. Which suggests that slow keys is activated.
Apologies for missing information, it’s actually difficult to type fluidly. I initially tried updating from 11.2 to 11.3 but because of this bug did a fresh install. I kept the /home partition so the config files are probably from previous versions of KDE.
If I can’t solve this problem I’ll install Gnome instead because my computer is pretty much unusable like this. I much prefer KDE though.
EDIT: OK, after submitting this post, I logged out and immediately logged back in again. The problem is gone. This means that it occurs when I first boot up but not when I log in from the splash screen.
If I disable automatic login, kdm still has the problem of slow keys when I type in my password. But when I log in into my user account I don’t have a problem, even if I set SlowKeysDelay=500 in my kaccessrc file.
If I can find out how to reproduce this error then I can submit a bug report (if it is a bug). Anyone know where KDM config files are?
I have the same trouble after upgrading my system from 11.2 to 11.3.
I think the problem is in USB keyboard (or its driver), because if I type on laptop’s keyboard there is no such issue.
And one more… it is not just a KDM/X11 bug - if you go to virtual console (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+F1) here you can still experience this strange bug.