hot keys stop wprking

Doug Funny
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15 Jul 2019 01:12 #139343 by Doug Funny

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Greetings all,
I have a Smithy 622 CNC mill that runs EMC2 I bought used a few years ago. It has always been a little quirky since I've had it. Recently though, after a period of time the hot keys stop functioning. Such as pressing "R" to run a program or "P" to pause it. I can run the machine using the mouse and pressing the run or pause buttons on the screen. Hoping someone can shed some light on my issue. Thanks in advance

Doug

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15 Jul 2019 08:09 #139378 by pl7i92

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hi
what Operation system Ubuntui wheezy debian strtch
what version 2.5. -2.9
what GUI Axis gmocappy ....

you may have lost your keyboarddriver on setup

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16 Jul 2019 12:11 #139554 by andypugh

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Does unplugging and re-plugging the keyboard help?
Is it a wired or wireless keyboard?

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16 Jul 2019 12:13 #139555 by tommylight

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CAPS LOCK active on the keyboard ?

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16 Jul 2019 17:04 #139583 by Badger

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I have had this problem too, although I did not take "caps lock" being on or off. I am running 2.7.7 with a wireless keyboard, with no caps lock indicator. Restarting LCNC doesn't clear the issue, but restarting the computer does. I like the thought of it being caps lock, although I don't know why that make a difference?

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16 Jul 2019 17:15 #139584 by andypugh

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Gene is having the same problem with a wireless keyboard. Plugging and unplugging the dongle should wake it up again.

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16 Jul 2019 17:53 #139587 by Badger

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In my case the track pad, right and left mouse keys work, along with the numerical keys for feed override, just the "s" and "p" stopped working. I then try to leave the cursor over the pause button on Axis and just use the left "mouse" button to pause. Not a deal breaker.

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16 Jul 2019 18:03 #139588 by tommylight

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Linuxcnc does not react to keyboard inputs when Caps Lock is on.
Linux in general makes a distinction between lower and upper case.

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16 Jul 2019 18:27 #139590 by andypugh

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Badger wrote:
In my case the track pad, right and left mouse keys work, along with the numerical keys for feed override, just the "s" and "p" stopped working.

Now that _really_ sounds like caps-lock.

You could test it by deliberately applying caps-lock. I think you wil find the very same behaviour.

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Doug Funny
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16 Jul 2019 22:09 #139616 by Doug Funny

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yup, it was the caps lock... :whistle:

Thanks all

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