A disgusted problem —— the keyboard is often locked by EAGLE

Question

Hi everyone Several weeks ago, I changed the OS from Win7 to Fedora. Fortunately, the EAGLE can be used under Fedora and its UI is highly similar to what it is in Win7. But when I began to work with it, a problem occurred. After I added a component into a scheme, and then canceled the adding by pressing ESC, as same as I usually did in Win7, the keyboard was locked. That means, I couldn't type anything and even couldn't close a dialogbox by pressing ESC anymore. I didn't know what happened at the time. So I planed to close the EAGLE. But to my surprise, when I tried to save the scheme, I couldn't type filename. Another words, the keyboard was completely locked. I forced to close the EAGLE then opened it again. All were OK. But latter, due to some unknown reasons, the problem occurred again and again. I realized that it's not a accident. So I googled it but couldn't get any valuable information. Has anybody here ever met this problem? Is anybody here can give some advice to solve it? Best regards.

Richard_H · Answer

Am 25.10.2011 08:41, schrieb Rui Ma: Hi everyone Several weeks ago, I changed the OS from Win7 to Fedora. Fortunately, the EAGLE can be used under Fedora and its UI is highly similar to what it is in Win7. But when I began to work with it, a problem occurred. After I added a component into a scheme, and then canceled the adding by pressing ESC, as same as I usually did in Win7, the keyboard was locked. That means, I couldn't type anything and even couldn't close a dialogbox by pressing ESC anymore. I didn't know what happened at the time. So I planed to close the EAGLE. But to my surprise, when I tried to save the scheme, I couldn't type filename. Another words, the keyboard was completely locked. I forced to close the EAGLE then opened it again. All were OK. But latter, due to some unknown reasons, the problem occurred again and again. I realized that it's not a accident. So I googled it but couldn't get any valuable information. Has anybody here ever met this problem? Is anybody here can give some advice to solve it? Best regards. You write the keyboard was locked, but you could move/use the mouse. Could you type something for example in a terminal window or in another application in this situation? What when you are pressing escape in another situation in EAGLE, let's say with the ROUTE command acive? Is the keyboard locked as well then? -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best regards Richard Hammerl CadSoft Support -- hotline@cadsoft.de FAQ: http://www.cadsoft.de/training/faq/

Richard_H · Answer

Am 26.10.2011 09:10, schrieb Rui Ma: Yes, the keyboard was OK in another aapplications for example a terminate. With the ROUTE command avtive, and whennever I press ESC, it will quit ROUTE mode immediately and the keyboard will not be locked under this situation. It seems that the problem only occures when editing scheme. Let me describe the problem step by step again: 1) Opened EAGLE. 2) Created a new project. 3) Created a new schematic in the project. 4) Tried to add a componet. A componet category dialogbox appeared. 5) Here I want to add a resistor. So I selected the certain component. A R1 appeared in schematic. And, after that, the software was still in adding mode. I could see an other resistor which color is red floated above the schmatic. Of course I could directly add it by just clicking mouse. But I didn't want to add resistors anymore. So I pressed ESC. A dialogbox appeared. But I didn't want to add any componets either. So I pressed ESC again. Another words, I continuely pressed ESC twice. OK, that problem occured! P.S. The OS I am using is Fedora15 and the language is Simplefied Chinese. Best regards Could you please check whether it is possible to lock the keyboard by presing Esc key twice or more times in any other situation in EAGLE? -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best regards Richard Hammerl CadSoft Support -- hotline@cadsoft.de FAQ: http://www.cadsoft.de/training/faq/