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Re: Sudden Mystery - Thunderbird Keyboard Errors

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On 2025/9/13 3:35:13, c186282 wrote:
> On 9/12/25 2:03 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>
>> There is an specific group for Thunderbird, so I added that group.

(Though it looks like this isn't a TB problem.)>>
>> On 2025-09-12 12:36, c186282 wrote:
>>> Started abruptly. Mostly the left third of the KB.
>>>
>>> Hard to get "A"s - esp capital. A few other letters.

[]


>    Now DO see the issue in terminal and a few other places,
>    just not AS bad as in TBird.
> 
>    It's ODD though ... the keys will be very balky for awhile,
>    then OK for awhile. It's like a temporary fault/overload
>    of the KB drivers, paralyzing maybe half a dozen keys. Note
>    that neither left OR right SHIFT works right during the
>    balky period. Re-installing almost everything KB from
>    Xorg stuff on has NOT helped.
> 
>    Nothing in any of the logs. Nothing odd from 'top'.

Definitely sounds like a hardware problem.

[]

>    Right NOW everything is fine, but 20 minutes ago
>    it wasn't ... and 20 minutes from now may be all
>    weird again.

[]


>    The ACER is nice because it has a built-in DVD
>    and network hard plug and xVGA plug too. Considering
>    getting a SS HDD for it - ought to speed things
>    considerably - but HATE spending money, 'fixed
>    income' at this point and you don't wanna KNOW
>    what my tax bills are :-)
> 
>    ahhhh ... the wonk is b*ck ....
> 

If it's not a lappy, just get a different keyboard - they're cheap
enough (tend to get thrown out, especially in industry, at the drop of a
hat; I have a cupboard compartment full of them) and life's too short to
argue with them. If it _is_ a lappy, you'll have to fix it eventually
(might just be a loose connector), but in the meanwhile use an external
keyboard. I do with my Lenovo ideapad anyway - nothing mechanically
wrong with the in-built one, but a couple of aspects of its layout
(particularly the positioning of the right shift key and the arrow keys,
but also for example the F keys not being in groups) drive me potty, and
generally using a "proper" keyboard is so much nicer. (It's nothing
special - just one of the standard black-and-silver hp ones I salvaged
from a works upgrade. But the keys being where I expect them, and also
proper keys, is so nice to use.)
-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

... some language may be offensive to younger viewers. Like "please" and
"thank you". (Intro to /Off Their Rockers/, quoted in RT 25-31 May 2013
by Sarah Millican.)

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Sudden Mystery - Thunderbird Keyboard Errors c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-09-12 06:36 -0400
  Re: Sudden Mystery - Thunderbird Keyboard Errors Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-09-12 11:42 +0100
    Re: Sudden Mystery - Thunderbird Keyboard Errors c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-09-12 09:01 -0400
  Re: Sudden Mystery - Thunderbird Keyboard Errors The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-12 15:47 +0100
    Re: Sudden Mystery - Thunderbird Keyboard Errors c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-09-12 11:08 -0400
      Re: Sudden Mystery - Thunderbird Keyboard Errors Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-09-12 17:18 +0100
        Re: Sudden Mystery - Thunderbird Keyboard Errors c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-09-12 22:03 -0400
          Re: Sudden Mystery - Thunderbird Keyboard Errors vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-09-13 02:29 +0000
            Re: Sudden Mystery - Thunderbird Keyboard Errors c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-09-13 06:01 -0400
        Re: Sudden Mystery - Thunderbird Keyboard Errors c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-09-13 06:17 -0400
          Re: Sudden Mystery - Thunderbird Keyboard Errors The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-13 11:21 +0100
            Re: Sudden Mystery - Thunderbird Keyboard Errors c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-09-13 07:32 -0400
          Re: Sudden Mystery - Thunderbird Keyboard Errors not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-09-14 08:37 +1000
            Re: Sudden Mystery - Thunderbird Keyboard Errors c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-09-13 19:13 -0400
            Re: Sudden Mystery - Thunderbird Keyboard Errors Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-09-14 13:00 +0000
              Re: Sudden Mystery - Thunderbird Keyboard Errors "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-14 18:48 +0200
                Re: Sudden Mystery - Thunderbird Keyboard Errors Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-09-14 18:20 +0000
              Re: Sudden Mystery - Thunderbird Keyboard Errors c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-09-14 15:16 -0400
                Re: Sudden Mystery - Thunderbird Keyboard Errors The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-15 10:46 +0100
                Re: Sudden Mystery - Thunderbird Keyboard Errors "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-15 13:51 +0200
                Re: Sudden Mystery - Thunderbird Keyboard Errors c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-09-15 16:41 -0400
  Re: Sudden Mystery - Thunderbird Keyboard Errors "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-12 20:03 +0200
    Re: Sudden Mystery - Thunderbird Keyboard Errors c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-09-12 22:35 -0400
      Re: Sudden Mystery - Thunderbird Keyboard Errors "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-09-13 08:28 +0100

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