On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 9:07 PM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is ridiculous. The keyboard on my laptop is mostly not working. I > click somewhere to enter text and the cursor appears where I clicked, > but when I type something nothing appears. If I leave it sit, about > fifteen minutes later the text slowly starts to appear, one letter at > a time. This happens everywhere - in browsers, the command line, e-mail > client. (I am typing this on my desktop computer.) If I try to enter > text with Onboard I also get nothing. > > I found a suggestion to do Ctrl-Alt-F2, or just Alt-F2, but neither has > any effect, although when I pressed the keys the cursor shimmered > slightly. > > I'm assuming that if I reboot things will be back to normal, but I'm > trying to save the half hour it would take to relaunch all my programs > and open all the files to where I was. Rebooting is a PITA. > > Any suggestions? > You could run top to see if there is some process hogging the cpu. If so, kill it. Bill
