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i've got a Debian8 with IceWM as display manager. i use 'xfe' writer as the default txt editor. suddenly the keyboard in the text editor is not working anymore, pressing any charactor on the keyboard doesn't enter them. however, the keyboard continues to function in web browsers (palemoon and Opera).
@xiongnu - Are you able to copy and paste text into the writer? If you can then that will indicate that you are successfully in "insert" mode. If not, then the issue would not appear to be your keyboard, but something with the writer application itself.
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