14.04intellijkeyboard
Could you help me with hell of a weird issue?
I use Intellij IDEA 13 on Ubuntu 14.04, and from time to time my keyboard completely (yep, completely, it's not about shortcuts) locks in IDEA. I still can do anything I want in IDEA with my mouse, also I can use the keyboard everywhere else except IDEA. And it can be fixed only by restarting IDEA so far.
Can anybody give a hint, please?
I wrote a little manual how to fix this. Note: that it is only for 64-bit. architecture.
wget https://cloud.urshulyak.com/index.php/s/kcBfJQDyQABcbjz/download &&
mv download jdk-8u5-tuxjdk-b08.tar.gz &&
tar -zxvf jdk-8u5-tuxjdk-b08.tar.gz &&
sudo mv jdk-8u5-tuxjdk-b08 /usr/lib/jvm &&
rm jdk-8u5-tuxjdk-b08.tar.gz
Script to start Intellij Idea
*only note that need to change IDEA_HOME location for your path of idea
#!/bin/sh
IDEA_HOME=/opt/idea
# for old idea JAVA_HOME, for new 2016+ will be IDEA_JDK
#export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-8u5-tuxjdk-b08/
export IDEA_JDK=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-8u5-tuxjdk-b08/
export _JAVA_OPTIONS="-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd \
-Dsun.java2d.xrender=true"
export GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=this-is-deprecated
exec $IDEA_HOME/bin/idea.sh "$@"
Result:
Well, I managed to figure out how to fix it, and it's definitely not what I would have expected.
Turns out that IntelliJ was using my system JDK (Oracle's JDK 8) while Android Studio, which is now bundled with a JDK, was using its bundled one (OpenJDK 8).
Simply telling IntelliJ to use Android Studio's bundled JDK instead of the system JDK fixed the issue. You can do that like so:
Go Help --> Find Action
Search for "boot JDK"
Click the ... in the drop down menu
Point it to {AS install DIR}/jre
Tell IntelliJ it's OK to restart:
When it comes back up, the font will now be fixed!
Best Answer
There is a an open issue in jetbrains youtrack for intellij idea that recommend two solutions:
Keyboard input may be unlocked by restarting IBus daemon from a console:
IBus can be disabled for IDEA by unsetting env. variable XMODIFIERS, but ability to input national characters in IDEA will be lost:
I have used the second one and fixed my problem.