DetectableAutoRepeat is broken

[Fabio Capela]

XkbSetDetectableAutoRepeat doesn't have any effect; when autorepeating, keys are still sending both KeyPress and KeyRelease messages, even though with DetectableAutoRepeat set they should only keep sending KeyPress events.

This bug affects at least windows programs running under Wine that need to ignore autorepeat, such as World of Warcraft.

There are two open bugs under bugs.freedesktop.org (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22194 and http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22515) about XkbSetDetectableAutoRepeat not working, both filled in june, one reported under Ubuntu and the other for the GIT version, so the bug might still be present upstream.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ath_hal
Package: libx11-6 2:1.1.99.2-1ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-13-generic (buildd@vernadsky) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #45-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 30 19:49:51 UTC 2009
SourcePackage: libx11
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686

[lspci]
00:00.0 Memory controller [0580]: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller [10de:005e] (rev a3)
     Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:815a]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7600 GT] [10de:0391] (rev a1)
     Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp. Device [3842:c555]

[ideasman42 (ideasman42)]

this is problematic with blender 2.5 as well, where we need to be able to have repeat events for our text editor and holding keys without release events during transform.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=bfb219f532f3c78ba905424365ee7c5f7b5f21a2 apparently fixes this issue. Could we have this patch backported? Wine sucks rather grandly with this bug present.

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Does this bug still occur on Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" ? What about on Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" ?

[bugbot (bugbot)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.