Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / February 2006

Can someone tell me what is going on here. Is it meant to happen? Can I
change it?

I have found that if I leave my PowerBook idle for a while, the
keyboard seems to 'sleep'. That being, nothing happens until the second
keypress. The first keypress seems to 'wake' it, and then the second
acts as a normal key press.

Example 1:
I leave my computer for a while and when I come back it is at the
screen saver - as expected. I come back, move around on the touchpad
and am presented with the screen unlock login prompt. I go to type my
password but note that the first key I press does not enter a
character. This means, that if my password was 'PowerBook' and that is
what I typed, I would only get 'owerBook' - note the missing 'P'.

Example 2:
I have my computer playing some music in iTunes for a while with full
screen visualisation on. I swear I used to just be able to press the
space bar (no matter how long it had been playing) and my music would
be paused. But nowdays, I have to press space twice if the music has
been going for more than about (not sure really) 5 minutes.

So is this normal, or does anyone know what might have changed and how
I can fix it?