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Weird keyboard locks in IntelliJ IDEA (delete & arrow keys, etc.)

While working in IntelliJ IDEA, the keyboard occasionally locks in a way that delete or < > ^ keys don't work properly anymore, in a way that delete doesn't do anything anymore, and the arrow keys scroll the entire source code / editor section.

I don't know if I am accidentially some kind of shortcut, but the only way I can get it back to normal again is closing and re-opening the IDE, which is annoying of course.

I'm on Mac OS X Lion, latest IntelliJ IDEA CE (11.1.1), but also had it before with the previous versions.

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Mathias Conradt Avatar asked May 03 '12 11:05

Mathias Conradt


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2 Answers

This answer on superuser.com worked for me:

ibus-daemon -rd 
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alwe Avatar answered Sep 17 '22 07:09

alwe


Just turn off Vim Emulator from Tools like this picture:

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Ali.Ghodrat Avatar answered Sep 21 '22 07:09

Ali.Ghodrat