Re: Keyboard prevents screensaver & scrolling terminal window

Hi Thomas, On 19/10/2021 22:31, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Seems to be considered a firmware bug of the keyboard which might become repairable in the future: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=267365 Oh, yes. Even better. Worked a treat. Thanks again Jeff OpenPGP_signature Descripti

Re: Keyboard prevents screensaver & scrolling terminal window

Hi, Jeff wrote: > KeyPress event, [...] > keycode 248 Seems to be considered a firmware bug of the keyboard which might become repairable in the future: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=267365 > https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=105326 Such old wisdom will probably

Re: Keyboard prevents screensaver & scrolling terminal window

Hi Thomas, Thanks for your suggestion. On 17/10/2021 13:53, Thomas Schmitt wrote: If your suspicion is right, xev should show lots of such Key* events as soon as its receiver window gets the focus, without you pressing any key at the keyboard. In that case, end xev and look at the messages on t

Re: Keyboard prevents screensaver & scrolling terminal window

Hi, due to the lack of other proposals i now come up with something ancient. If you are still running the X Window System, then there should be a program named xev. Start it in a dedicated terminal window which will get its verbous text output. Redirect a copy of that output to a file: xev | te

Keyboard prevents screensaver & scrolling terminal window

Hallo! I picked up a second-hand Cherry MX 3 keyboard some time ago. The feel is very good, but when it is plugged in, I can no longer scroll the active terminal window, and the screensaver no longer activates. I can scroll inactive terminal windows, and everything returns to normal if I unp