For the last few days, approximately once a day, my keyboard has completely stopped working on this Titanium Powerbook G4/500. I can still switch apps with command-tab, but I can’t type any words. Anywhere.
The first time this happened I was running several exotic enhancers, like DragThing and WindowShade X and uControl and stuff, so I toasted ’em all (especially uControl, as it is a kernel-level hack that affects the keyboard). Now I’m not running with anything unusal except Quicksilver (which I wasn’t running before), and I’ve had the same thing happen a couple times. Suddenly, no type-ee, no how. And a reboot fixes it.
Anyone ever heard of this?
(No, it’s not the numlock key. I do that sometimes, but this isn’t that.)
Ed- I have absolutely no help for you. But, it does sound like you are running lots of interesting plugins / utils. When things get patched back together, how about a Mac utils discussion post. Best / worst / most useful.
Most of those extensions are listed in this article: http://www.asktog.com/columns/060MonsterMac.html — QuickSilver is a free clone of Launchbar, and uControl’s main function is to let me use my trackpad as a scroll wheel (though it can do other things of nift).