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and subject line Bug#443250: shift key doesn't work if pressed very quickly
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Package: xserver-xorg-input-kbd
Version: 1:1.2.2-3
Severity: normal
After the recent big Xorg update, I started getting mysterious failures while
typing quickly a password, which contains the sequence "xA". It turned out
that if I start holding down left shift very quickly after typing "x", the
following characters will not be uppercase. This also works with the letters
z, c, and v but not, for example, b.
Everything works fine outside X, and used to work before the upgrade to Xorg
7.3. Only the left shift key is affected.
The bug can be seen in xev. When I press and release "x" quickly, then quickly
press and hold shift, the shift event takes a moment (0.5-1 sec) to register.
If I press "a" while holding the shift key before the shift event registers,
it will register as a lowercase "a" and the shift event will not arrive at all
before I release the shift. If I try the same with e.g. "b", then the shift
event registers immediately.
This is on a ThinkPad T60, whose keyboard the KDE control center
indentifies as "IBM ThinkPad S60Z/600/600E/A22E, Intl".
KDE's "Enable keyboard layouts" option is off, however.
The relevant section in xorg.conf:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "ee"
EndSection
Changing layouts or models doesn't help.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.3 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages xserver-xorg-input-kbd depends on:
ii libc6 2.6.1-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4-2 X.Org X server -- core server
xserver-xorg-input-kbd recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Version: 2:1.4.1~git20071117-1
This should be fixed in the new xserver-xorg-core which just got
uploaded to unstable. It contains multiple input-related fixes.
Thanks,
Brice
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