[KDE4] Troubleshooting keyboard probs [SOLVED]

Question

For two days now I've lost keyboard responsiveness in KDE4.3.1 -- at least when I'm logged in under my username. If I log in to KDE4 as root, the keyboard responds normally. If I log in to Openbox rather than KDE as user or root, the keyboard responds normally.
I've done a lot of updates over the past couple of days and have now set about to revert them one-by-one. So far, nothing has fixed the problem.
Which package is the most likely culprit? Or is there some other KDE setting that I might have goofed up?
Thanks.
Last edited by dhave (2009-10-09 03:37:18)

Answer 1

Thanks to some people on an OpenSuSE forum, I tracked down the problem at last.
SOLUTION: I simply had to remove the following config file:
~/.kde4/share/config/kaccessrc
I actually made a reserve copy just in case. Without this file, however, kde4 is starting fine, with full keyboard access, for my normal user.
For the record, here are the contents of the kaccessrc file that I removed:
[Keyboard]
GestureConfirmation=true
Gestures=true
SlowKeys=true
I don't see anything there that would have kept me from using the keyboard, but there's must be something amiss somewhere.
Also, this file was absent from the .kde4/share/config of both root and of the new user that I created to work on this problem, both of which had working keyboards under KDE4. So it is pretty clear that there's something offensive about this file!
I hope this helps someone else.