fixing keyboard lockup on exit

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fixing keyboard lockup on exit

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The Mythtv wiki for Raspberry Pi has a discussion about a bug in QT that causes the keyboard to lockup on exit from mythfrontend when run with:

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QT_QPA_EGLFS_ALWAYS_SET_MODE="1" QT_QPA_PLATFORM=eglfs mythfrontend 
It also says that you can fix the lockup with the following commands in your script that runs mythfrontend

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kbd_mode -u
# restore cursor
setterm  --cursor on
That works on normal exit, but if the command has an error exit as it sometimes does for me, the keyboard is locked up.

Is there a way to cause an error exit that can run through the same commands? I'm not that knowledgeable about the capabilities of bash.
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