Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: vallor Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Sudden Mystery - Thunderbird Keyboard Errors Date: 13 Sep 2025 02:29:30 GMT Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <10a1bqq$3i30k$11@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net /aOxd/FozPWH+PyKq6VrawonYJ7bUCH7YRm7OoNHOrsDNFZ5KL Cancel-Lock: sha1:q3cSVCMRvZLykI6sVzpLpxt0lYc= sha256:6BRYrrdSAqIm1uqnrnUCLVX1K3lzEtgARITMi1l4IQI= X-Face: +McU)#<-H?9lTb(Th!zR`EpVrp<0)1p5CmPu.kOscy8LRp_\u`:tW;dxPo./(fCl CaKku`)]}.V/"6rISCIDP` User-Agent: Pan/0.164 (UA6; f8e650a6; Linux-6.16.7) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:73995 On Fri, 12 Sep 2025 22:03:06 -0400, c186282 wrote in : > On 9/12/25 12:18 PM, Andy Burns wrote: >> c186282 wrote: >> >>>    It will work for short while and then several keys >>>    go all wonky. >> >> Surely you've got a spare keyboard lurking somewhere?  Even though you >> don't think it's a physical issue, I'd suggest swapping it, just to see >> if the issue "goes away", could save you hours of hunting the >> intermittent lurgy ... > > DO have a USB keyboard ... gonna try it. > > Have already tried to find every keyboard-related > lib/util/xorg thing and re-installed. No diff. > > DID boot an MX from a stick the other day and did > NOT see the prob in that live edition - but I didn't > run it for all that long. > > Anyway, does not SEEM to be a mech/electric issue > with the actual laptop kbd - which is good, do not > wanna spend $600+ for a new little laptop right now, > too many other bills. > > WORST case ... nuke my old MX and install a newer > version from scratch. Alas I've installed/configured > SO much in the existing version - it'd be a horrible > loss. In-place 'update' ... two versions ... never > seen that go very well. Just updated Mint from 22.1 to 22.2 using the software tool. Only one thing it did I didn't like -- it uninstalled synaptic. So I promptly re-installed it. Grr. -- -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090Ti 24G OS: Linux 6.16.7 D: Mint 22.2 DE: Xfce 4.18 NVIDIA: 580.82.09 Mem: 258G "It is bad luck to be superstitious."