[Xquartz-dev] freezing keyboard

John Koren jpkoren at gmail.com
Thu Jun 26 09:02:51 PDT 2008


Just one more detail. Enable key equivalents under X11 must be
checked. In my case, the "keyboard freeze" is only seen in X11
applications, such as xterm and rxvt. Other Mac OSX applications are
not affected.

-John

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Jeremy Huddleston
<jeremyhu at berkeley.edu> wrote:
> 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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