[Xquartz-dev] freezing keyboard

[John Koren]

I am sorry for all this traffic, but I must retract my last comment.
The problem is present also under "Safe Boot", with no other
applications running.

-John

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 9:35 AM, John Koren <jpkoren at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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