weird problem with caps lock (KDE)

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tuhoaja

Hi

Just rebooted my computer and then restarted KDE(4.5.1), and noticed that my keyboard was no longer working correctly. I can only type(in KDE that is) with caps lock on! With caps lock on, the letters are capitalized(obviously), and pressing keys with shift-button down, then the letters are uncapitalized.
But, when caps lock is off, then I get no letters at all! In text mode, the keyboard works as expected, and I also get the same results with a different keyboard.

I played a bit with xev, no caps-lock and 'a' pressed:

Code: 
FocusOut event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
    mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor

FocusOut event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
    mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyPointer

FocusOut event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
    mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor

KeymapNotify event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    keys:  2  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
           0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0


So, any ideas what might be the cause of this? I have restarted KDE a few times, but that does not solve the problem. It's kinda hard to do things with caps lock on all the time :)
 
I modified .xinitrc to start just xterm, and it worked as expected. So I guess this is KDE related. Maybe I'll rebuild KDE and see if this goes away.
 
Recompiling is going to take a while. Since this looks more like a configuration issue, I'd start with [cmd=]mv ~/.kde4 ~/.kde4-backup[/cmd] (while KDE is not running) and then launch KDE and see if it's gone away.
 
Ok, it seems I have found the source of this problem. When clementine-player (audio/clementine-player) was on, the behaviour was as described. When I close it, everything is back to normal. I'm rebuilding it now and then checking it's config to see what's wrong.
 
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