Hotplug USB keyboard does not respect existing delay/repeat rates

[Mrinal Kalakrishnan]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-evdev

I'm using Jaunty 9.04 RC on a Lenovo T60 laptop. When I connect an external USB keyboard, the delay and repeat rate for that keyboard are set to some "default" values, rather than the values I selected, until I set them again using the preferences. Meanwhile, the delay/repeat rates for the laptop keyboard remain the same.

Steps to reproduce:

1) Use the GNOME keyboard preferences to set keyboard delay and repeat rate (set to extreme values to reproduce the bug).
2) Plug in USB keyboard.

Expected behavior: USB keyboard also takes on the user-supplied delay and repeat rate.
Observed behavior: USB keyboard gets default delay and repeat rate, while laptop maintains user-supplied settings.

This behavior has become noticeable only after an upgrade to Jaunty from Intrepid. It's annoying because I plug in external keyboards every day, and have to set the rates manually every time.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.1.1-1ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-11-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-input-evdev
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Dominic Sacré (dooooomi)]

I can confirm this problem on a Thinkpad X60s running Jaunty. I regularly switch between two machines using a KVM, and every time I go back to the Thinkpad the external keyboard's repeat rate is too slow, while the laptop's keyboard is fine.

[Daniel Fett (fett-ubuntu)]

This also affects karmic RC. I have a bluetooth keyboard, which is initialized once i press a key after boot. Delay and Repeat settings are always set wrong due to this bug.

[Daniel Fett (fett-ubuntu)]

And after a resume, the settings are wrong, too.

[Daniel Harvey (daniel.harvey)]

This is similar to bug #383397.

In particular, the upstream bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=585222 marks a similar bug as a duplicate (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594138).

[Oliver Joos (oliver-joos)]

Marked as duplicate of newer bug 427168 because there are more comments.