Yesterday I upgraded from (an up-to-date) Feisty to Gutsy. Since then, quite often a key release event seems to get lost, so that the system thinks the key is still pressed and then key repeat usually wreaks havoc.
So far this problem only occured in Opera, but it is most likely not an Opera bug, since under Feisty I used 9.22-20070716.6 and the problem never occured. I then upgraded to 9.24-20071015.6feisty1, and the system upgrade then installed 9.24-20071015.6gutsy1. Here the problem occurs.
However, I downgraded now to 9.22-20070716.6 using opera_9.22-20070716.6-shared-qt_en_i386.deb from the Opera site, and the problem *still* occurs.
More hints:
- Even with ctrl-w (=closing a tab in Opera), the problem occurs, although here there should be two key releases involved and a ctrl-w key repeat should only occur if both release events fail simultaneoulsy, correct?
- It is also not a keyboard problem, I tried both a wireless and a standard keyboard.
Since I heavily rely on keyboard shortcuts in Opera, this problem is quite unnerving. Please tell me what other info I can give to help reproducing or isolating this problem.
Followup: It seems the key release event doesn't get lost completely, but it's evaluation is delayed for several seconds (the equivalent about 5-30 key repeats at the default setting): even when no other key is pressed, only these 5-30 key commands are processed (the amount varies), then it settles down on its own.