Keyboard stops working after switching Spaces in Mac OS X
:: Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 @ 5:23:48 pm
:: Tags: Computers
This was driving me crazy because I’m 100% a keyboard shortcuts person. After switching Spaces using the keyboard in Mac OS X Snow Leopard (I have my shortcuts set to Control-Left Arrow and Control-Right Arrow), my keyboard might stop working. I knew it was a software issue because I use Teleport to control another machine from my main machine; during keyboard outages, if I moved the mouse over to the other machine, the keyboard would work over there.
I did some Googling and discovered that it is the Dock process that is causing the problem. Go to Applications->Utilities->Activity Monitor (you’ll have to use the mouse, unfortunately) and quit the “Dock” process. The Dock will relaunch itself and your keyboard will be working again.
