Eclipse Randomly Does Not Recognize Arrow Keys or Backspace, Spacebar etc

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Basically it stops recognizing all non alpha keys. Restarting eclipse does not fix the issue. Rebooting my computer does.

I'm using OS X 10.6.4 fully updated. 🙂

Anyone else experience this?

Best Answer

Instead of killing the dock, you need to kill the Finder. To do this, you have to do "Apple + Alt + Escape" which shows you the force quit dialog, select the "Finder" and click "Relaunch". Your keys should be start working again.

I suspect it's something to do with an application crashing and then screwing up Java processes (this happened immediately after Firefox crashed).

All the best