I get two characters in Activities when I press one key for the first key I press...

[Rob Frohne]

If I click the Activities in the upper right hand corner of the screen, then do NOT click in the search bar and begin to type, I get two of whatever character I hit. At first I thought it was due to my keyboard wearing out, but it happens on multiple computers, and whatever key I type, even infrequently used ones. If I click in the search bar before I type, then the characters are not duplicated. If I then backspace over the single character that was correctly displayed in the search bar and type another character, that character is doubled. Bounce keys will not eliminate this either. I started noticing doubling characters a couple of weeks (approximately) ago. I didn't start to suspect the real reason until recently.

Thanks for working on this for all of us!

Rob

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.10
Package: gnome-shell 40.5-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.13.0-22.22-generic 5.13.19
Uname: Linux 5.13.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu71
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Jan 3 11:43:59 2022
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-04-19 (990 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Alpha amd64 (20190326.2)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 40.5-1ubuntu3~21.10.1
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to impish on 2021-10-12 (82 days ago)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

I can't reproduce the bug but other people can:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/4651
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/4658

[Rob Frohne (frohro)]

I am noticing other anomalies. For example, sometimes clicks on one item require me to click on another before they react to the first item. To be more specific, I wanted to reboot to see if it would clear this annoying thing, so I went to save my work. I needed to select a directory (folder) to save my work in, but no matter what button I clicked or how many times I clicked on the folder I could not get it to switch to that folder. I finally gave up and decided to save in the parent folder, and when I clicked the SAVE button it opened the directory I was trying to save it in. I'm rebooting now, and will see if that clears it up for a while. If I can figure out how to make it happen again, I'll let you know. This laptop is one with a stylus, and I use it that way every so often.
Thanks for working on this annoyance!
Rob

[Rob Frohne (frohro)]

Rebooting fixed it for now.

[Mert Can Demir (validatedev)]

Also, restarting with Alt+F2 -> r fixes for a while. After some time, it occurs again.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.

Ubuntu 21.10 (impish) reached end-of-life on July 14, 2022.

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[T Johnson (tedmjohnson)]

This is still happening as of 22.10

[daniel gimeno (daniel-gimeno)]

Hi, same scenario here, when I hit any key to search an app, it appears double. If I click in the search button previously I dont get double keystroke.
my setup:
 daniel@med030  ~  gnome-shell --version
GNOME Shell 42.5
 daniel@med030  ~  lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
Release: 22.04
Codename: jammy
 daniel@med030  ~  uname -a
Linux med030 5.15.0-56-generic #62-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 22 19:54:14 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
 daniel@med030  ~  gnome-extensions --version
42.5

[Tom Cook (tom-k-cook)]

Also seen on 22.04 LTS running gnome-shell 42.5-0ubuntu1. Seen for the first time today; as noted above, restarting the shell fixes the issue, at least temporarily.