Alt-tab, alt-f2 disables all keyboard input in kde 4.2 beta 2
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Bug Description
I have installed kde 4.2 beta 2 on kubuntu 8.10 using the standard method (backported packages from jaunty jacklope). Every time i eg press alt-tab, nothing happends except all keyboard input seems to be disabled (except ctrl-alt-backspace, ctrl-alt-(1..9) and similar xorg-related shortcuts). The pointer still works, but when interacting with applications it behaves as if the alt-key is pressed. Besides this the desktop seems to behave normally, ie. no drawing problems, i can close and minimize applications using the pointer, etc. but the computer is, of course, completely unusable.
This is happening on an ibm thinkpad t60 with an ati x1300 which has had no problems like this with kde 4.0.* and kde 4.1.3.
I have tried to remove .kde and .kderc and purged xorg and all related to the fglrx drivers and reinstalling using standard methods provided by kubuntu by no luck (because of this my xorg.conf file is completely trivial). The keyboard layout is selected correctly in the control center, and the problem exist with and without desktop effects.
If i type 'top' in the command line everything looks good, no funky new processes or an xorg which takes up 99% cpu or something like that. The problem also exist if i press alt-f2 and/or try to interact with certain plasma components like using get hot stuff. The problem is 100% reproduceable on my system.
As far as i can tell everything else works as intended.
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Have you already tried with the latest updates of kde? Do you still experience this issue? Thanks in advance!