Keyboard not responding on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Question

So after upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, the keyboard is not responding properly. Although at the boot-up when I have to type my password for disk encryption, it works fine. But after login to Ubuntu, it doesn’t. For example, backspace doesn't respond to me pressing it. Sometimes it does but often it stops responding at all. Like that, the number on top of the keyboard also stop responding however at the bootup it works fine.

Solution 1

To solve the problem:

1. Click the down arrow on the top right corner near the Shutdown sign
2. Go to Settings
3. Click on Universal Access
4. Go down and click on Typing Assist (AccessX)
5. On the pop-up message toggle Bounce Keys to ON

Solution 2

I just found out why that was happening. No it is not a keyboard hardware error but rather it is one of the features of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS that did this.

So, apparently inside "Universal Access", there is a feature called as "Bounce Keys". Out of curiosity a couple of days earlier. I enabled it and due to this, the keyboard wasn't responding as quickly as it usually did.

Now that i have disable the feature, keyboard is working fine.

Comments

[Fabby]

Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! ;-) Unfortunately, this is a duplicate of the first existing answer

[Melebius]

@Fabby I’d keep this one. It is easier to read, definitely not a Copy-Paste duplicate.