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<p dir="auto">Kee Hinckley wrote (at 12:13 on 10 Apr 2016):</p>
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<p dir="auto">I've also twice hit a bizarre input problem where my keyboards are still recognized (I can bring down the keyboard menu and see them move as I type), and command keys work, and keys work in apps without input areas (e.g. LaunchBar). <strong>But I can't type in any input area in any app, not even iTerm.</strong> I don't know yet if that's a Mac problem, or due to the plethora of apps I have that intercept the keyboard stream, but it's <em>real</em> annoying. Reboot is the only solution I've found.</p>
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<p dir="auto">This sounds like the problem where the system believes that a dialog, such as a password input dialog, is open somewhere, so it disables text input elsewhere, even in the current application. On my system, the LastPass plug-in is often the apparent culprit. (I also use Keyboard Maestro, which alerts me when I press a text expansion shortcut that it intercepted due to this problem. KM explicitly suggests that I check LastPass, which has always been the culprit so far.) </p>
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