hot keys stop wprking

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

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

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

CAPS LOCK active on the keyboard ?

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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