[Xquartz-dev] freezing keyboard

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at berkeley.edu
Thu Jun 26 03:51:03 PDT 2008


I'm holding option, command, and sometimes both while clicking all  
over the menu bar and I'm not seeing any problem =(

--Jeremy

On Jun 26, 2008, at 03:40, John Koren wrote:

> Jeremy,
>
> I just did a bit more investigation. It occurs if just click on the
> menubar item (while holding the option/command keys) but don't select
> any item from the pulldown menus. I can also get the keyboard working
> again by pressing  option/command keys second time. It affects X11,
> Applications, Edit, Window,  and Help, not blank space. It also
> affects a menubar item called "caffeine" if I start it up and try to
> reach it's Preferences (which requires pressing the command key).
> Caffeine is affected only if X11.app is the top application running.
>
> -John
>
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Jeremy Huddleston  
> <jeremyhu at apple.com> wrote:
>> Seems to work fine here... odd.  I'll try it on my G4 laptop when I
>> get a chance... just to be certain, where are you clicking on the  
>> menu
>> bar?  X11? Applications?  Edit?  Window?  Help? blank space?
>>
>> --Jeremy
>>
>> On Jun 26, 2008, at 03:02, John Koren wrote:
>>
>>> I have found that when I press the option or command keys and at the
>>> same time click at X11.app menubar items, my keyboard freezes.
>>> Strangely, I am able to get the keyboard  working again by pressing
>>> twice the numeric lock button. I wonder if others are seeing this
>>> behavior.
>>>
>>> I am using Powerbook G4 (Aluminum) with Mac OS 10.5.3, X11 2.3.0- 
>>> rc4,
>>> X11-1.4.2-apple2, and Xquartz-1.4.2-apple2.
>>>
>>> Cheers -John
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