GNOME shell records characters out of order

[Richard]

GNOME shell repeats characters or gets them iut of order

Occasionally in the overview app searcher, LibreOffice Writer and possibly other places

There was a fix for this in 3.17 but it is still present.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.20.4-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-30.32-generic 4.8.6
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-30-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Thu Dec 15 15:13:07 2016
DisplayManager: lightdm
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-11-16 (29 days ago)

[Richard (ismail-a)]

This happens for Overview with GNOME/Wayland
and for LibreOffice in GNOME/Wayland and GNOME/X

Ubuntu 16.10
yakkety
Package: gnome-session
Version: 3.22.2-1ubuntu1~ubuntu16.10.1

[Richard (ismail-a)]

When GNOME Shell is busy, like updating 16 or so windows for overview display,
then some characters typed into the overview Type to search… field are repeated and the search fore applications therefore fails.

[Richard (ismail-a)]

Any application is affected: LibreOffice, Chromium

Now I had a key-press repeated 5 times in Chromium

[Richard (ismail-a)]

Now I had it in Chromium. In a new Chromium window, while Chromium is busy loading other tabs, typing into a browser text control, characters are both repeated and swapped, ie:

123 becomes 1223
1234 becomes 1324

[Richard (ismail-a)]

steve mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmartinnnnnn tyweet

The y is a spelling error

[Richard (ismail-a)]

According to the GNOME project, this is fixed by Xserver 1.19

X .Org Server 1.19 was released on 2016-11-15
1.19.1 was released on 2017-01-11

Can we have the latest version compiled for Ubuntu so it can be tested if this is fixed, please?
I expect to find it here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 16.10 (yakkety) reached end-of-life on July 20, 2017.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

17.04 shipped with 1.19.3, and it's backported to 16.04.3 (via xserver-xorg-hwe-16.04 dependencies)

[dino99 (9d9)]

This is an unsupported release now. Please think to install the next LTS 'Bionic 18.04'

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-next/daily-live/current/
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/02/ubuntu-18-04-minimal-install-option