Public bug reported: Description: In a linux/bsd guest within X, pressing and holding a key for a short time causes an endless repeat of that key in the guest. The release of the key gets ignored. Example 1: pressing and holding 'a' for a few seconds results in typing of 'aaaaaaaaaaaa...' endlessly. Example 2: pressing and holding 'Backspace' for a few seconds results in deleting all your previously typed text.
It doesn't happen within a VT in the guest. It also doesn't happen with guests that run windows, reactos or haiku for example. The problem goes away, when disabling xorgs autorepeat function via "xset -r" in the host. Normally, this setting should not have any effect on the guest, since it has it's own autorepeat setting. So there is some conflict here. Steps to reproduce: Start any linux/bsd guest system with xserver, open a terminal, press and hold a key for a short time: Look how it gets typed endlessly (Try a few times if it doesn't happen immediately). The easiest way is to run a linux live cd, like this (Link to example iso :http://download.grml.org/grml64-full_2018.12.iso) $ qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 512 -net none -boot d -cdrom grml64-full_2018.12.iso Qemu version info: QEMU emulator version 4.0.0 Copyright (c) 2003-2019 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers System info: Linux **** 5.0.13-arch1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun May 5 18:05:41 UTC 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux ** Affects: qemu Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Description changed: Description: In a linux/bsd guest within X, pressing and holding a key for a short time causes an endless repeat of that key in the guest. The release of the key gets ignored. Example 1: pressing and holding 'a' for a few seconds results in typing of 'aaaaaaaaaaaa...' endlessly. Example 2: pressing and holding 'Backspace' for a few seconds results in deleting all your previously typed text. It doesn't happen within a VT in the guest. It also doesn't happen with guests that run windows, reactos or haiku for example. The problem goes away, when disabling xorgs autorepeat function via "xset -r" in the host. Normally, this setting should not have any effect on the guest, since it has it's own autorepeat setting. So there is some conflict here. Steps to reproduce: Start any linux/bsd guest system with xserver, open a terminal, press and hold a key for a short time: Look how it gets typed endlessly (Try a few times if it doesn't happen immediately). The easiest way is to run a linux live cd, like this (Link to example iso :http://download.grml.org/grml64-full_2018.12.iso) $ qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 512 -boot d -cdrom grml64-full_2018.12.iso - Qemu version info: QEMU emulator version 4.0.0 Copyright (c) 2003-2019 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers + + System info: + Linux **** 5.0.13-arch1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun May 5 18:05:41 UTC 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1828272 Title: 4.0 breaks keyboard autorepeat in guests with xserver Status in QEMU: New Bug description: Description: In a linux/bsd guest within X, pressing and holding a key for a short time causes an endless repeat of that key in the guest. The release of the key gets ignored. Example 1: pressing and holding 'a' for a few seconds results in typing of 'aaaaaaaaaaaa...' endlessly. Example 2: pressing and holding 'Backspace' for a few seconds results in deleting all your previously typed text. It doesn't happen within a VT in the guest. It also doesn't happen with guests that run windows, reactos or haiku for example. The problem goes away, when disabling xorgs autorepeat function via "xset -r" in the host. Normally, this setting should not have any effect on the guest, since it has it's own autorepeat setting. So there is some conflict here. Steps to reproduce: Start any linux/bsd guest system with xserver, open a terminal, press and hold a key for a short time: Look how it gets typed endlessly (Try a few times if it doesn't happen immediately). The easiest way is to run a linux live cd, like this (Link to example iso :http://download.grml.org/grml64-full_2018.12.iso) $ qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 512 -net none -boot d -cdrom grml64-full_2018.12.iso Qemu version info: QEMU emulator version 4.0.0 Copyright (c) 2003-2019 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers System info: Linux **** 5.0.13-arch1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun May 5 18:05:41 UTC 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1828272/+subscriptions