Keyman is unreponsive and slow

Keyman
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I’ve had a problem with keyman being unresponsive. When I first installed it a few days ago, it would respond on the first keystroke. Now I have to hit a key two or three (or more!) times to get keyman to type even a simple character like “v.” Any clues as to what is causing this and how to fix it?

details:
I have a windows 10 OS
I’m using keyman in MS word, where it hasn’t had issues before.

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It might be helpful if you tell us what keyboard you are using. Or is the problem with any keyboard? Does the keyboard use odd things like the R-ALT key?

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Really weird… I just had a similar thing happen to me on my laptop. Windows 10 latest, Office Pro 2016, and it just started not typing characters reliably. Here is me typing “This is a test” 4 times:

Ths tst
hs i att
hs s est
a tt

Similar results with another Keyman keyboard, and when I turned the Keyman keyboard off, everything returned back to normal. But the really weird thing is that that happened ONLY IN WORD! I opened Excel, LibreOffice Writer, Outlook email (which is supposed to use Word as an editor), and even typing this reply - and in all of these the Keyman keyboard worked just fine.

So then I closed Word, and re-opened it, and now everything is back to normal. So I don’t know how it got in that state, but restarting Word seemed to fix it. So Emily, is this still a problem after restarting Word?

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I had this happen one more time - again fixed by closing Word and re-opening. But I’ve tried a couple dozen more times - opening existing documents, creating a new document, etc. - trying to find a pattern, and the problem didn’t happen any of those other times. Weird… Keyman 10.0.1201.0.

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@jheath thank you for the description. If you catch this happening again, could you try to capture a debug log while the problem is alive (I’m hoping that restarting Keyman doesn’t cause the problem to go away)?

To capture a debug log:

  1. Open Keyman Configuration, Options, and in the Advanced section, tick Debugging.
  2. Restart Keyman.
  3. Demonstrate the problem.
  4. Exit Keyman.
  5. Turn off Debugging again – it generates large logfiles that capture every single keystroke you type.

A debug log file should be generated in a folder called keymanlog on your desktop.

When you send the debug log to us, if you can note what you tried to type and the actual result, that helps a lot.

It may also help to send a second debug log of Keyman/Word behaving normally for us to compare.