Comment 7 for bug 194214

Binary package hint: compiz

When using Compiz it is possible for keys to get "stuck" down. A simple way for me to reproduce is to scroll wildly in firefox with the mouse wheel (or trackpad scroll edge) for a couple of seconds while holding down the "page down" button. After doing this the X server believes the "page down" key is permanently pressed, making other tasks obviously difficult. Repeating this procedure (holding down "page down" and scrolling madly) will generally unstick the key after a couple of tries, but once this has occurred the keyboard behaviour is still slightly strange: some modifier key combinations (alt-tab, super-tab for compiz, super-space for Gnome-Do) no longer work, and the key-repeat settings no longer apply - pressing a key produces exactly one character/event, no matter how long you hold it down for. However, Ctrl-left, Ctrl-backspace and the like still work.

This behaviour is not limited to the "page down" key, nor does it require madly mouse-scrolling - that just makes it dependably reproducible. It also happens to me with WoW under wine, where I often have the ',' key held down and use the mouse at the same time. It seems to require keyboard+mouse activity.

I'm filing this under Compiz because I can only reproduce this behaviour while Compiz is running. Try as I might, I can't reproduce under Metacity.

Some or all of bug #190934 may be the same as this. However, simply restarting X fixes this for me - I don't need to delete any settings, or kill gconf.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Feb 22 13:09:11 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: compiz 1:0.7.0-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: compiz
Uname: Linux CowboyLaputopu 2.6.24-8-generic #1 SMP Thu Feb 14 20:13:27 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux