IntelliJ stops accepting keyboard input after holding a key down
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Really as per the title - if I press and hold a key down (any key, can just be a letter) IntelliJ completely stops accepting keyboard input until its restarted fully. This is quite frustrating and annoying! I'm on MacOS High Sierra 10.13.5, IntelliJ version 2018.1.5 Ultimate. If you need some more info to help figure this out please let me know!
Regards,
James
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Hi.
Please provide idea.log (Help | Show log...) after reproducing a problem.
Sure, here it is. Im not sure it's much help though =/
https://hastebin.com/itayuvurej.bash
Hi, do you by chance have a VIM plugin on? Does it help if you turn it off?
No I dont.
Please completely reinstall the IDE.
Does it help if you completely reinstall the IDE?
This is a newly installed laptop, and it also happened on my old laptop too, so no, that doesn't help.
Please try disabling all custom plugins.
Disabled all custom plugins, restarted intellij, the issue still happens.
Does the problem reproduce on 2018.2.1?
Hi, just tested it, yes it does.
could you please provide complete log folder compressed including ThreadDump directory: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/207241085
I cant upload zips here, it wont let me. However there are no thread dumps, and the zip just contained the one logfile which has pretty much the same content as the last one, no errors or anything in it.
Please attach it to https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-197180
@James I'm experiencing something similar, also on a mac.
Q: When you hold down a key, for example in the Chrome URL bar, does the letter repeat, or do you get the character picker dialogue, as documented here? https://support.apple.com/kb/PH25643?locale=en_US
Mine is currently mysteriously missing. My colleagues don't hit this bug - they just get the character picker.
If yours were to be missing too, I'd mark that as a useful clue.
Hi @Fahran - I get the character picker dialogue in chrome.
@Petr and @Fahran - this problem has gone away in 2018.2.4!! Thank you :)
Changing the language From English to SomeOtherLanguage, and then switching back to English fixes the issue, and lets you use the keyboard again
This happens to me also, and the character picker appears at the top,
Hello. Please try updating to 2018.3, the problem was fixed there:
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JRE-998
The issue still persists in the later version(s)
I am using:
IntelliJ IDEA 2019.3.2 (Ultimate Edition)
Build #IU-193.6015.39, built on January 21, 2020
Temp Fix: Invalidate the cache
Please try the current release from https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/index.html .
This is what worked for me; from your terminal type the following:
I used the IdeaVim plugin, so if I navigated with the hjkl keys, it would accept the first key, and just sit there doing nothing while you hold the key. With the above, keys started repeating for me.
Having this problem on 2023.3
Only fix is to quit and restart the IDE
Please see https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JBR-6456/Sudden-keyboard-death-on-Linux-using-iBus.
You can restart ibus as a workaround.