billbaloney
House pianist
Right, this is a new one on me. I've installed nothing recently, I run no Quick Keys-type key sequence convenience software, I have no OS-wide convenience or tweaking software of any kind, no virus software. I have no peripherals attached.
I'm using this "October 2005" TiBook that I've had for two months, and it's behaved beautifully until now. Twice today, while using extremely unchallenging apps (e.g., BBEdit, Terminal), the keyboard mapping has spontaneously changed. This is the built-in PowerBook keyboard.
I haven't been able to keep track of exactly how the mapping changes, but it's stable. QWERTY map correctly, then YUIOP map to 12345. Delete becomes forward-delete. The arrow buttons are disabled.
The system logs have no events when the change occurs. The keyboard re-mapping is consistent across applications. Nothing unusual that I can see in the System Preferences, but I might be looking in the wrong place. I don't see any other bad behavior, outside the mapping. Reboot re-establishes the correct keyboard mapping.
I have no internationalization settings on this machine; only I use it, and I only use American English.
That's it, totally mysterious to me. Any ideas? Has anyone ever experienced anything like this? TIA.
I'm using this "October 2005" TiBook that I've had for two months, and it's behaved beautifully until now. Twice today, while using extremely unchallenging apps (e.g., BBEdit, Terminal), the keyboard mapping has spontaneously changed. This is the built-in PowerBook keyboard.
I haven't been able to keep track of exactly how the mapping changes, but it's stable. QWERTY map correctly, then YUIOP map to 12345. Delete becomes forward-delete. The arrow buttons are disabled.
The system logs have no events when the change occurs. The keyboard re-mapping is consistent across applications. Nothing unusual that I can see in the System Preferences, but I might be looking in the wrong place. I don't see any other bad behavior, outside the mapping. Reboot re-establishes the correct keyboard mapping.
I have no internationalization settings on this machine; only I use it, and I only use American English.
That's it, totally mysterious to me. Any ideas? Has anyone ever experienced anything like this? TIA.