I demand that Peter Weber may or may not have written...
The wordaround is quite simple: If your konsole locks up, deactivate Scroll Lock and it will work again. Of course working that way is quite annoying.
that's right, i can't believe it.
Does this only happen while xine is replaying?
yes
Could it be related to xine's way of deactivating the screensaver while replaying?
can i deactivate this? find nothing in preferences.
Disable the XTest check in configure.ac, re-run autoconf then rebuild.
The XTest code will be disabled by default in the next gxine release (the relevant changes are already in CVS).