Re: "Stuck keys"

On 29 June 2014 15:27, Chris Bannister <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 01:29:28PM +1200, Kathinka wrote:
> > Anyway, back to the main story.  Every now and then I'm writing
> something -
> > usually in a blog, something online rather than in, say, LibreOffice -
> and
> > it's like a key sticks.  On and on it goes,
> > eitherrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr like that or
> even
> > more annoying, I hit delete and instead of taking out a typo it steadily
> > demolishes word... sentence... paragraph.
>
> Ouch! Seems like it's not the keyboard as it only happens sometimes and
> with different keys?


Yes, different keys.


> Although, it would be a good idea to try another
> for a while to rule out any strange fault in the keyboard.
>
> Is the system sluggish before it happens,


Yes rather often these days it goes sluggish, though one doesn't
necessarily follow the other problem!
When it goes sluggish it comes right from rebooting.  The sluggishness is
annoying but not nearly as much so as when the delete key goes rogue and I
lose all or most of what I wrote.

and/or is the disk drive light
> constantly flashing?


Light?  Um, little blue light in top LH corner above keyboard?  Haven't
noticed.  I think if it started flashing I'd have noticed because that's
weird.

I'm guessing that the keystrokes aren't registering
> initially but then the system "catches" up they and all register at once.
>

Yes, in the case of sluggishness, leading to messiness because I've typed
the same thing twice.  That "stuck" repeating action isn't like that
though.  It goes on and on and on.............

>
> You should try and narrow down the problem and see if it happens with
> different software. One idea, is to try a different browser for a while
> when you are editing your blog. You may not use your WP often, but to
> try and diagnose the problem, I personally, would be using as much
> different software as possible to narrow the problem down as much as
> possible.
>
> If this problem is intermittant, then you have one of the worst kinds of
> faults to deal with, and only a patient systematic approach will yield
> any useful results. You have my deepest sympathies.
>
> It doesn't happen when you're emailing anyone? (Presuming you're using
> thunderbird or equivalent - i.e. not webmail via browser.)
>

I use gmail because early on, with Mandrake I think it was, I used Kmail
then when I got a different distro I couldn't open my old mail which was
like a journal, the different things I'd written about to friends and
family.  It's like losing my memories - that's the trouble with keeping
memories written down not in one's head.  So now I use gmail because
whatever else I have, google is always there.
I haven't had the trouble with gmail, but since it's intermittent
(grrrrrrrr!) that could be coincidence.

You mention using another keyboard.  This is the one that is built into the
machine, I have  a separate one that should work off the same as the mouse
but it didn't, not on this "new" computer (tablet, it was called but it's
like a laptop with screen + keyboard)  though it had been good with the
noisy old PC.  Maybe the pair of them are old and cranky, might be worth
replacing them eh?


Kathinka.

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