Keyboard locked after entering a Gnome session

[Peter N. Spotts]

Hi Folks,

I'm using 11.04 beta (updates current) on an old Toshiba Satellite
laptop. Yesterday I was ham-handedly typing, hit a couple of keys
simultaneously, and the keyboard locked. No movement of the cursor with
cursor keys, no typing in window fields, nothing. I rebooted and had no
problem using the keyboard at the graphical log-in to enter my user
name and password. But once a window/session manager -- Gnome, Openbox,
it didn't matter -- opened, anything I typed wasn't making it to the
screen. 

I did a perhaps too-hasty Google search (the problem cropped up
during a ham radio operating contest, so I was a bit distracted) and
didn't find anything helpful. I presume (hope?) I just inadvertently
toggled a lock-keyboard key-stroke sequence somehow and now need
to flip that toggle in the other direction? Simple key-stroke
combination, or do I need to monkey around with something in X?

Thanks for any guidance you can provide.

With best regards,

Pete

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