Eclipse stopped recognizing my Kinesis keyboard shortcut buttons(copy, paste, etc)?

Question

I have a Kinesis Freestyle keyboard which has keys for common shortcuts (ie a cut, copy, etc buttons).

However, for the last few days Eclipse has stopped receiving the keyboard buttons correctly, and even CTRL+X is not working. One button("Paste") is actually registering as a page-down instead.

But the keyboard buttons/shortcuts work fine in Chrome and in Windows.

Does anyone have a clue about this?

Did you try to use a new workspace? – Kane Jun 23 '13 at 08:08 — Kane, Jun 23 '13 at 08:08
@Kane - Wowsas! it worked!!!!! tyvm – Caffeinated Jun 24 '13 at 01:48 — Caffeinated, Jun 24 '13 at 01:48

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

There are two ways to solve it: switch workspace, or "Restore Defaults" in the Preferences -> Keys menu

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You can also switched workspace , that's what i did first, and everything worked fine again( i guess bec. I didn't fiddle with keys & shortcuts).

File->Switch Workspace

Apparently, based on this SO link - really weird eclipse keyboard behavior/bug? - it may be a configuration issue that is workspace-dependent(maybe a custom keyboard shortcut I added-on ??!?).

I'm still curious about a way to narrow down why, but it looks like a clash of the key-bindings.

Here's another link, Switching workspaces

Eclipse stopped recognizing my Kinesis keyboard shortcut buttons(copy, paste, etc)?

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