You need something to type with...

[janestarz]

My new keyboard, barely several months old, was already giving me trouble a few weeks back. Sometimes the F1 key would get stuck and dozens of KDE help (or Firefox help) would pop up over whatever I was doing. Usually this was just a typo as I'd been trying to hit F2 to rename a file.

You may of course ask what type or brand. It was a Trust keyboard. Untrustworthy bastard. I already disliked it right after purchasing it, and it didn't get any better, but it was about the only keyboard that didn't have a million "multimedia" keys on it. Keys I don't see any particular use for, as my Amarok listens quite well to ⌘-B. Because I renamed my Windows-key to be known as the mighty Apple.
Ahem.

But today my print-screen button got stuck. To be fair, I was aiming for Backspace, I think. My computer started starting up hundreds of instances of KSnapshot. Even logging in on a different console and x-killing it didn't work. NoKey was called in. He wrote a small command-line script to kill Ksnapshot, and then sleep for 0.25 seconds (rotations? bits? whatever!). It worked, but then KDE4 started tossing up warnings that KSnapshot couldn't be started. After 133 of these I got rather tired of them and told NoKey to just xkill the entire session, never mind the OpenOffice document I was working on.

We plugged in a new keyboard, which is so yellow I'm surprised it's got a Windows key at all. Soon, I'll be on the hunt for a new keyboard. This one skips vowels. But you need something to type with...

Comments

[sna.livejournal.com]

My dad used to buy our keyboards, a long long time ago. We had one by Tulip (which was actually a Trust), then he bought a new one (a Trust) when that keyboard croaked after less then two months - though it has to be said my bro and me were kinda into Blake Stone and Duke Nukem at that time. Then he got us a Logitec. And since then I've always bought all my gamepads, joysticks, mice and keyboards from them. Takes a fair bit of money in general, but they can take a fair amount of abuse.

[woran.livejournal.com]

I dont have a keyboard in the sense that I have a laptop and they keys are integrated in the body. Im just very glad Dell makes it very sturdy. I did have trouble when I got a 'maanzaadje' stuck under my c key and I could press it down far enough to get the letter. Made for some funny text.