loss of keyboard

greets! I installed the trinity kde system several days ago and am getting used to it, using an hp pavillion laptop with Debian. I have problems with one app, klibido 3.5.12. you can enter characters, words or regular expressions in a little bar called 'filter by subject'. when I try to do so, nothing shows up: no text is entered, nor can one do 'ctrl +a' to select all the headers. basically no keyboard entry is possible. I am using standard us-intl keyboard layout. the machine is an HP Pavillion laptop. it has worked fine with all variants of Linux I've had on it. I have no other keyboard input problems so far. I have not tried reinstalling klibido. any tips? F. -- Felmon Davis You never learn anything by doing it right.