[SOLVED] Keyboard input gets capitalized intermittently

rtspitz · 02-14-2011, 11:34 AM

I have an annoying problem with just one of my accounts on my computer. I don't know what causes it or why it happens, but when typing in a console (X11) suddenly all input gets capitalized - as if shift were pressed. But it's not. After some time and clicking here and there it goes away again.

What I've done so far:

changed keyboards from a USB to PS/2 one and it still sticks to that account
cleaned keyboards and lubricated each key
deleted and recreated said account without just copying the config files over

I'm using standard KDE4 on openSUSE 11.3 and 'yakuake' for pull-down console windows.

This is driving me nuts

corp769 · 02-14-2011, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by rtspitz

I have an annoying problem with just one of my accounts on my computer. I don't know what causes it or why it happens, but when typing in a console (X11) suddenly all input gets capitalized - as if shift were pressed. But it's not. After some time and clicking here and there it goes away again.

What I've done so far:

changed keyboards from a USB to PS/2 one and it still sticks to that account
cleaned keyboards and lubricated each key
deleted and recreated said account without just copying the config files over

I'm using standard KDE4 on openSUSE 11.3 and 'yakuake' for pull-down console windows.

This is driving me nuts

Only for one account you say? That's weird.... Have you tried with the rest of your accounts?

rtspitz · 02-14-2011, 01:56 PM

Well I think so. I've never experienced this 'issue' with other accounts. And I use the same tools (yakuake, konsole, vi, kile, avr-gcc ...) with all of them - at least right now I can't think of anything that should be a notable difference (except maybe amount of login time).

I think I'll have to do some more testing and wait for it to happen with other accounts as well...

corp769 · 02-14-2011, 03:03 PM

Are you getting any weird warnings or errors in your /var/log/messages file? Maybe output of dmesg possibly?

rtspitz · 02-15-2011, 02:53 AM

No.

I used to get error messages regarding 2 of my USB ports (disabled due to EMI), but I'm not using these anymore. The rest is just the usual informational noise.

corp769 · 02-15-2011, 03:10 AM

Going over many links on google, I have come across many threads about random caps lock issues, but all that actually lead me somewhere came down to a system halt or such. Does the system lag at all when it happens? Besides that, you really got me man. A configuration file definitely would not do something like that.

eSelix · 02-15-2011, 04:04 AM

If this happens only in the X console or other programs, like editor, are also affected? And can you check if this happens in non X console (CTRL+ALT+F1) ? If only console, so look inside some login starting scripts. If only in X so check configuration of that program.

rtspitz · 06-26-2011, 02:59 PM

After doing a system upgrade to opensuse 11.4 and 'tumbleweed' it is gone now.

Before that I had used 'xev' to see what keys might have been pushed (or X11 imagined) and I could see that some kind of shift key showed up in the list after some time, although I never pushed anything. Strange life of its own...

Closing as resolved for now.