Key repeat not working in Gnome [solved]

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HotBBQ · Post by **HotBBQ** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 1:01 pm

I noticed today that my down and left arrows are not triggering key repeats. It only happens when I am in Gnome. If I switch to a virtual terminal the keys behave normally. I am using evdev and the keyboard manager in Gnome. Any ideas?

onelove · Post by **onelove** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 1:19 pm

i observe the same problem in KDE-4.2.1 since upgrading from x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.1.3 to x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.2.0. some keys trigger autorepeat, some do not. currently i am downgrading to 2.1.3.... lets see if that helps. i'll edit this post.

regards,
onelove

€1: downgrading to x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.1.3 resolved this issue. could this be a configuration thing or be more bug-related?

HotBBQ · Post by **HotBBQ** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 1:37 pm

onelove wrote:€1: downgrading to x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.1.3 resolved this issue. could this be a configuration thing or be more bug-related?

Sounds like a bug to me. I haven't explicitly configued anything.

onelove · Post by **onelove** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 1:50 pm

i just wanted to report a bug, but obviously i was to slow. the bug has already been reported.

93nt00r0ck5 · Post by **93nt00r0ck5** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:37 pm

x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.2.0-r1 fixes this

energyman76b · Post by **energyman76b** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:08 am

do the xorg devs test anything before a release?

sno35 · Post by **sno35** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:14 pm

Probably they test just what they were after, as most developers do, maybe a little around.
And for such big a thing, with volunteer base, that's not so low in probability and efficiency.
And yes sometime, it's on my toes the bugs crash :/ We're in the process. Gnagna-testers ^_^

moodboom · Post by **moodboom** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 4:58 pm

sno35 wrote:Probably they test just what they were after, as most developers do, maybe a little around.
And for such big a thing, with volunteer base, that's not so low in probability and efficiency.
And yes sometime, it's on my toes the bugs crash :/ We're in the process. Gnagna-testers ^_^

I suppose open-source users are expected to tolerate some pain but the newer xorg stuff has been more painful than usual. The price of progress I guess. As usual gentoo help was easy to find. :>

Thanks for the help 93nt00r0ck5 sno35 et al.

Edit: I wonder why 2.2 isn't marked stable yet (as of June 5, 2009), with this major problem existing in 2.1? Fix for this issue was posted on March 10.

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261947#c4

Key repeat not working in Gnome [solved]

Key repeat not working in Gnome [solved]

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