On 01/14/2013 06:57 AM, STeve Andre' wrote:
Last night I experienced something I have never seen before.
Sitting in KDE, I noticed that my keyboard had changed. Any
character pressed resulted in its control equivalent, so an A or
a was ^A, etc.
Thinking that this was very bizarre, I went to the first console
via ctrl-alt-F1 and things were fine. Switching back to X/KDE, things
were OK, too. It hasn't happened since.
I wonder if I had a momentary hardware glitch? Has anyone
seen this before? This is a W500 Thinkpad running amd64-current
last compiled Jan 8th with a package set from December 28th.
I'm guessing your ctrl key was stuck. I too have a W500 and
have had the problem. It is not obvious when a key is stuck.
Ray