Lost Keystrokes - First 2 or 3 Every Time

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#1

Hi,

Experiencing a weird problem: if I don’t type anything for a short time - say 5 seconds, and then start typing I lose the first 1-3 characters (depending on how quick I type) - it’s like it takes a while for the focus to come back on the window, and then the keystrokes are recognized… Same thing happens if I open up an app and then start typing in it - I lose the first 1-3 or so characters. Only workaround is to keep hitting the first character until it appears, and then continue from there. I can’t find anything else wrong - I did upgrade to KDE4.5 a week or so back (in an effort to fix digikam but that didn’t work) - other than that it’s really native 11.3

Any ideas on what I can check to see might be causing the problem - maybe a process hogging the focus…? (sorry - bit of a newbie to debugging this kind of stuff - although quite comfortable using apps etc.)

Thanks,

JW

#2

If you recently took on the kernel security update, it might be a bug in the kernel update, if we can assume your keyboard did work properly before. Check out this thread for a fix.

Keyboard & mouse freezes

Thank You,

#3

That is phenomenal - thank you so much.
Logitech, Inc. was the problem one.
Now solved completely,
JW

#4

That is phenomenal - thank you so much.
Logitech, Inc. was the problem one.
Now solved completely,
JW
Happy to hear of your success funkymuppet, please let us know if we can help in any other way.

Thank You,