[Xquartz-dev] freezing keyboard

John Koren jpkoren at gmail.com
Thu Jun 26 09:07:21 PDT 2008


And one more detail. Option key does not do it all the time - Command
key, however, does it.

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 9:02 AM, John Koren <jpkoren at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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