mouse stops responding for a while when a key is pressed

[Teo]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Move the mouse in circles and keep moving it
2. Press a key and hold it, while you keep moving the mouse

Expected: the mouse cursor should keep moving following the movements of the mouse, regardless of whether a key is pressed

Observed: the mouse cursor hangs for a second or two when the key is pressed, and then it resumes moving (even if you still hold the key)

The interval of time during which the mouse stops responding seems to be equal to the interval of time after which the key starts "firing" multiple keystrokes continuously.

This is a regression in Ubuntu 10.10. It has started happening after I upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10; it didn't use to happen before.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.50-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jun 24 19:37:30 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: meta-gnome2

[dino99 (9d9)]

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

[Teo (teo1978)]

LOL this is hilarious.
This report only gets attention for the first time ages after I reported it, when it's already fixed. And marked as invalid because it refers to an old already unsupported release, which was the current one when the bug was reported.

That gives me very little hope that any of the bugs I've reported in the last two years, most of which are still unfixed and haven't even got the "importance" decided, will be fixed anywhere earlier than 2018