[Xquartz-dev] freezing keyboard

John Koren jpkoren at gmail.com
Thu Jun 26 09:35:34 PDT 2008


I just rebooted in "safe mode" and the problem disappeared. Then I
started " MenuCalendarClock for iCal", which I normally use, and the
problem resurfaced again. So it seems that it is a X11.app and
MenuCalendarClock conflict.

-John

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 9:07 AM, John Koren <jpkoren at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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