[Bug 194190] New: holding keys down no longer results in repeated entries

Tue May 26 19:05:03 BST 2009

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194190

           Summary: holding keys down no longer results in repeated
                    entries
           Product: kde
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Fedora RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: smparrish at gmail.com

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.3)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

This was reported on the Fedora Bugzilla.  Below are the comments from that
bugreport.

   Description From  Need Real Name (chapinjeff at gmail.com)  2009-02-18 19:25:36
EDT   (-) [reply]

Description of problem:

Pressing a key and holding does not result in repeated entries of that key.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Press "a" key, and count to 10
2.
3.

Actual results:
 a

Expected results:
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Additional info:  

------- Comment #1 From Kevin Kofler (kevin at tigcc.ticalc.org) 2009-02-18
19:36:28 EDT (-) [reply] -------

This is probably an evdev issue, not a KDE issue.  

------- Comment #2 From Rex Dieter (rdieter at math.unl.edu) 2009-02-18 19:39:18
EDT (-) [reply] -------

could look in system settings -> keyboard & mouse, to check to see if the
"repeat
keys" option is enabled or not.  

------- Comment #3 From Need Real Name (chapinjeff at gmail.com) 2009-02-18
22:45:20 EDT (-) [reply] -------

Kevin -- It worked just fine on a tty.

Rex, that seems to have been the problem. Now to fix that so it is enabled (the
expected behavior) by default. Heck, it took three different people to even
guess that one.  

------- Comment #4 From Kevin Kofler (kevin at tigcc.ticalc.org) 2009-02-18
22:49:47 EDT (-) [reply] -------

Let's reassign it to kdebase-workspace for now.

Might this be a settings migration issue?  

------- Comment #5 From Need Real Name (chapinjeff at gmail.com) 2009-02-18
23:16:14 EDT (-) [reply] -------

This was an upgrade from fedora8/kde3.5, however that was not set prior to this
-- so if it is a migration issue, there is still a bug somewhere.  

------- Comment #6 From Need Real Name (chapinjeff at gmail.com) 2009-02-21
20:10:36 EDT (-) [reply] -------

It does not appear to be upgrade related, as KDE is not saving the fact that I
am enabing keyboard repeat. Everytime KDE restarts, I have to re-enable that.  

------- Comment #7 From Need Real Name (chapinjeff at gmail.com) 2009-02-22
18:37:17 EDT (-) [reply] -------

It appears that "enable keyboard repeat" is simply not saying. Every time I
open that system-settings dialog, the box is unchecked.

It also appears that 'up' 'down' and 'right' are still repeating... (sometimes)
but left never seems to.  

------- Comment #8 From Need Real Name (chapinjeff at gmail.com) 2009-03-02
02:31:44 EDT (-) [reply] -------

After re-enabling (again), now up and right repeat, down and left, do not. 

All attempted letters seem to repeat correctly.  

------- Comment #9 From Rex Dieter (rdieter at math.unl.edu) 2009-03-02 08:52:16
EDT (-) [reply] -------

curious, what video hw/driver is in use here?  We've had quite a few reports
lately of odd keyboard-related irregularities (similiar as here) for users of
recent nvidia drivers, for example.

Are these issues reproducible with a fresh user (ie, one with an initially
empty ~/.kde)?  

------- Comment #10 From Need Real Name (chapinjeff at gmail.com) 2009-03-02
09:11:45 EDT (-) [reply] -------

As per bug # 486234, I am unable to log in as a different user.

I am using the Intel 965GM chipset, with included video, and I am using the
'intel' driver that came by default.  

------- Comment #11 From Rex Dieter (rdieter at math.unl.edu) 2009-03-02 11:08:01
EDT (-) [reply] -------

There are much bigger issues going on here it would seem, so we may be losing
the forest for the trees here.  

------- Comment #12 From Need Real Name (chapinjeff at gmail.com) 2009-03-02
11:23:58 EDT (-) [reply] -------

Well, it would be nice to get working on the forest. If you have a better
suggestion for tackling the problems, feel free to suggest them.

As I see it, much of the problem stems from Fedora 8 losing support and
requiring an upgrade to maintain access to updated repos -- but Fedora 9 and 10
both have immature versions of KDE with multiple bugs.  Other than trying to
address the bugs one at a time, and petitioning to get a stable, mature version
of KDE back, I am out of ideas, and the latter seems to have a snowballs
chance.  

------- Comment #13 From Kevin Kofler (kevin at tigcc.ticalc.org) 2009-03-02
12:44:30 EDT (-) [reply] -------

I still think this issue is probably somehow related to the evdev migration.
Maybe it's KDE not handling evdev correctly though.

One thing you can try: go to the keyboard settings in System Settings and make
sure the keyboard type is set to "Evdev-managed keyboard".  

------- Comment #14 From Need Real Name (chapinjeff at gmail.com) 2009-03-04
20:41:22 EDT (-) [reply] -------

I started system-settings, clicked 'Keyboard and Mouse"... and do not see
anyplace to check keyboard type.  

------- Comment #15 From Kevin Kofler (kevin at tigcc.ticalc.org) 2009-03-04
20:45:36 EDT (-) [reply] -------

Sorry, it's under "keyboard layouts" in the regional settings, not under
"keyboard and mouse".

But the setting is there only if you have keyboard layouts enabled in KDE. If
you have them disabled, it's grayed out, in that case it can't be that.  

------- Comment #16 From Need Real Name (chapinjeff at gmail.com) 2009-03-04
20:50:36 EDT (-) [reply] -------

Grayed out.

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