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Bug 322504 - Backspace and Arrows stop working
Summary: Backspace and Arrows stop working
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: z_Archived
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: PDT (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: Macintosh Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
: P3 normal with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: PHP UI CLA
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Reported: 2010-08-12 07:24 EDT by dada87 CLA
Modified: 2020-05-14 11:42 EDT (History)
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Description dada87 CLA 2010-08-12 07:24:05 EDT 
Build Identifier: 20100617-1415

Randomly for twice time a day, the arrows and the backspace keys stop working in the editor and only there (works fine in the explorer, in the menu, outline...).
I tried to find other report on that bug but it's talking about a mouse problem when my mouse is fine and also I used eclipse for a month before it started.

To resolve the issue the only solution I have is to restart my computer...wich is a little annoying when done twice a day. (restarting eclipse is not enough)

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 erik van nieuwburg CLA 2011-02-18 07:32:15 EST 
Open Activity Monitor and quit the Dock process. After that the keys seem to be functioning again.
Comment 2 brian CLA 2011-11-08 01:30:09 EST 
I'm seeing this as well, quitting dock process does not fix.
Comment 3 erik van nieuwburg CLA 2011-11-08 03:09:08 EST 
Killing the dockprocess worked in Snow Leopard. It stopped working in Lion.

I've read multiple times that it's got something to do with mouse button listeners that are stuck in Eclipse. 
What fixes it most of the times right now: just press ALL of your mouse buttons (+wheel) at the same time. After that, it usually works again.
Comment 4 Dawid Pakula CLA 2016-05-18 09:01:54 EDT 
This bug was created for carbon, unsupported for now.

On cococa ewerything working correctly.
Comment 5 Sylvia Tancheva CLA 2016-06-21 10:28:44 EDT 
Closing