Sticky keys doesn't react to mouse buttons

[Thomas Hansen]

To reproduce:

1. Open "Universal Access" and activate "Sticky keys" under the "Typing" tab.
2. Open a terminal. Press and release shift, then press "A" twice. Observe that the First A gets capitalized, and the second doesn't. In other words the shift "stuck" until the first A was pressed, then disabled. That's the expected behavior.
3. Press and release Alt. Observe that dragging inside the terminal moves the window as Alt+mouse drag moves windows. Release the mouse button and drag again...

What does happen:

It still moves the window.

What should happen:
It should drag out a selection in the terminal, just as is normal for dragging in a terminal without any modifiers.

The first mouse button release should cancel the stickyness of the Alt key, just as a keyrelease would do.

History:
I've seen the this bug in previous Ubuntu releases, and I'm not the only one as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/415685 attests. I'm sure it started out working correctly when I started using stickykeys, then having the current faulty behavior, get fixed and then regress again now. I'm not sure about the exact releases, but I'm absolutely positive that it worked correctly in 12.04.

I have 2 different laptops that had it working in 12.04 and both have the current bug in 13.04. Sadly I upgraded both directly from 12.04 to 12.10 to 13.04, so I didn't notice whether the problem exists in 12.10.

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[penalvch (penalvch)]

Thomas Hansen, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report:

apport-collect -p xorg REPLACE-WITH-BUG-NUMBER

Thank you for your understanding.

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It's still an issue.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Thomas Hansen, as per your https://launchpadlibrarian.net/162573896/BootDmesg.txt :
[ 0.136782] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored

As well, as per http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19/Product/xps-13-l321x-mlk, an update to your BIOS is available (A10). If you update to this, does it change anything? If it doesn't, could you please both specify what happened, and provide the output of the following terminal command:
sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date

For more on BIOS updates and linux, please see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette .

Thank you for your understanding.

[Thomas Hansen (xen-q)]

I cannot see how a BIOS update can be relevant.

I probably didn't make it absolutely clear, but I saw this issue regress between 12.04 and 13.04 not only on this Dell XPS 13, but also on a Lenovo X410s, two entirely different laptops. I got a new workstation at the time, and decided on testing the new 13.04 on the old laptop before attempting to upgrade the 12.04 that the XPS shipped with. I find it highly unlikely that both should have the same bug in entirely different BIOS'es.

[Maarten Lankhorst (mlankhorst)]

No it just means that linux is not handled in acpi, it has nothing to do with the mouse sticky keys. But because windows is used for ACPI, this doesn't matter one bit..

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[Thomas Hansen (xen-q)]

I'm keeping this open, I hope having time to upgrade soon, and see if it's still an issue.

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[Thomas Hansen (xen-q)]

Latest information:

14.04 didn't fix the issue either, but I just upgraded to 15.04, and now it's back to the correct 12.04 behavior. Sadly I didn't check 12.10.

Might regress yet again, but I'm happy for the moment being.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Thomas Hansen, this bug report is being closed due to your last comment https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1193686/comments/32 regarding this being fixed with an update. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status. Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please submit any future bugs you may find.