Constant Keyboard Input Makes System Unusable

Hi,

Manjaro
Plasma 6.3.4-1

I just ran into a weird thing where there was constant input from the keyboard of “+”
I had set the key press delay to 600 ms and repeat to 100/s
Power Settings “when laptop lid is closed” “do nothing”

Holding the power button for a hard power off didn’t work either.

I could not switch to a new TTY.
The Application Launcher went right to search and there was no restart option in GUI.

This started while I was running StarCraft2, installed using Lutris with runner wine-ge-8-26-x86_64. System wine version 10.5-1. I left SC2 it running and walked away for a while. When I returned this was the problem.

It seems like the battle.net service has been under some attacks lately. This may or may not have been related to that.

Solution: (?)
I removed the battery from my laptop and everything seems fine now.

I am posting this here because I don’t really think I have the info for a bug report.

A solution could be for the Application Launcher to continue to display shutdown options even when characters are entered into the search.