x11vnc repeats keystroke infinitely (regression)

[Andrew]

x11vnc occasionally will start infinitely repeating a keystroke. The only fix seems to kill the vnc session, go to the computer locally and hit the repeating key on the keyboard to make it stop.

This is a very severe but as things like the delete key or enter key repeating are extremely dangerous.

I am using these settings for x11vnc:
-forever -xrandr -bg -nobell -auth $AUTHFILE -usepw -rfbauth $RFBAUTH -o $LOGFILE -input KMBCF -noxdamage -display :0.0 -xkb -nomodtweak -norepeat -1

I added the "-norepeat -1" to try to fix the problem, but it does not fix it.

x11vnc version: 0.9.3.dfsg.1-1ubuntu2

This never happened to me in intrepid, just started happening with Jaunty (amd64 build)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: x11vnc 0.9.3.dfsg.1-1ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libvncserver
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-12-generic x86_64

[Andrew (andrew-rw-robinson)]

This may be related:

http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/faq.html#faq-repeated-keys-still

[K Runge (ubuntuforums)]

This is not a bug in x11vnc but rather in the X server:

  http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21454

  http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/367136

The workaround for x11vnc is the "-repeat" option, not the one you suggested.

  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1125694

[Andrew (andrew-rw-robinson)]

Awesome. Thanks for the follow up. I had a feeling it wasn't x11vnc
when I built it from source with the latest and it still was happening.

Sent from my iPod

On May 23, 2009, at 6:57 AM, K Runge <email address hidden> wrote:

> This is not a bug in x11vnc but rather in the X server:
>
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21454
>
> http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/367136
>
> The workaround for x11vnc is the "-repeat" option, not the one you
> suggested.
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1125694
>
> ** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #21454
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21454
>
> --
> x11vnc repeats keystroke infinitely (regression)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/379459
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