Q: Apple keyboard acting strange when Apple mouse is on and in use
Lately, when I've tried to unlock my iMac after it's been asleep, I'll enter my password and only the first character will appear. Shortly after, the keyboard will type a bunch of characters (they all show up as dots since it's a password), and I'll hear the 'enter' tone being pressed over and over again. The best way I could describe it is that it looks like a ghost is typing a bunch of keys in and holding down 'enter'.
Now I've noticed that when I'm trying to use iChat, sometimes my keyboard will start lagging severely, and opening the option to enter special keys when I type a character. For example, while trying to type the sentence: "Yeah, me too", what will appear is the letter Y, and the little box opens up allowing me to select ¥ or Ÿ, etc., and then when I type the 'e' the little menu will pop up for me to select ê, ë, or è, etc., and it will do that for every letter I try to type, making it impossible to use iChat or type anywhere on my computer.
The only thing that stops this bizarre behavior is when I turn off the Apple mouse, and the "connection lost" message appears on the screen. Once it's off, the keyboard will type as normal. The only thing I can think of is that the mouse is somehow interfering with the keyboard, causing it to act up. I tried searching the forum for a similar sounding situation, but can't find anything like this. It's hard for me to believe that two Apple products would be interfering with each other, but that's what seems to be happening here. Has anyone ever heard of or experienced this, and if so, how did you fix it? I'd hate to have to get a different mouse, but I'm not sure what else will fix it.
iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.5), null
Posted on May 25, 2016 7:28 PM