Bug#598837: Kwrite regularly goes into "backwards typing" mode

[John Southworth <jkt@astro.keele.ac.uk>]

I have also had this problem intermittently for over a year.

I run many kwrites simultaneously under kubuntu 10.04 on my Lenovo 
Thinkpad R500 laptop. I find that this problem occurs roughly once per 
week and affects only part of one document per instance.

I find that the problem goes away after 5-10 minutes, so I need a bit of 
patience but no restart of kwrite. It may be associated with a cut-paste 
from a terminal window via the middle mouse button, but the occurrence 
pattern is not obvious.

I have also seen the problem on a later version of kubuntu (now replaced 
by 11.10) on my Toshiba Portege laptop.

John

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Dr J Southworth                           jkt@astro.keele.ac.uk
Astrophysics Group, EPSAM,    http://www.astro.keele.ac.uk/~jkt
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