[ltp] strange keyboard behaviour after power savings

[Arno Trautmann]

Marius Gedminas schrieb:
> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 11:35:25AM +0200, Arno Trautmann wrote:
>> yesterday I tried to enable some of the power saving options mentioned  
>> on thinkwiki:
>>
>> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_reduce_power_consumption
>>
>> I only enabled things from which I thought I knew what they do. But now  
>> if I start, my keyboard does strange things: on login, I type a-r-n-o,  
>> but get only „arn“. Now I can press any other key, say f, and I get the  
>> missing „o“. The next key may be b, but I get the „f“, and so on.  
>> Sometimes I just have to wait about 1sec for the korrekt letter to 
>> appear…
> 
> This might be some sort of an accidentally-enabled accessibility
> feature.  I would suggest checking gnome-keyboard-preferences.

I don’t use Gnome, but XFCE4. I only use gdm for login.

>> Ok, I could work with this, if I always think two steps ahead and one  
>> back—but I’m not that smart ;)
>> Could anyone give me a hint, what could have caused this? Or give me a  
>> keyword to google? I don’t know exactly what to search for…
>> I run Arch Linux, gdm, on a X61s.

Arno