xset led on, enables mouse-keys

[Simon Rigét]

I have a backlit keyboard on a stationary PC.
The back-light goes off at random intervals.
I'm a heavy user of numeric keypad. That turns into mouse-keys at intervals as well.

Both issues results in a rather annoying user experience.
I have not been able to determine the reason or what lead up to this. But it often happen whenever I take a short break. (after a few minutes of inactivity)

Therefore I periodically run a script to turn the back-light back on and disable mouse-keys.

It turns out that setting the back-light on, enables the mouse-keys again!

Something is wired with this. But this last part is easy to reproduce with this script:

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.a11y.keyboard mousekeys-enable false # disables mouse-keys
/usr/bin/gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.a11y.keyboard mousekeys-enable # reports false and mouse-keys are actually disabled

xset led on

/usr/bin/gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.a11y.keyboard mousekeys-enable # reports false, but mouse-keys are actually enabled!
/usr/bin/gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.a11y.keyboard mousekeys-enable false # disables mouse-keys again.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+13ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-62.83-generic 4.4.40
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-62-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity_support_test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Feb 14 15:17:53 2017
DistUpgraded: 2016-06-03 10:07:29,690 DEBUG icon theme changed, re-reading
DistroCodename: xenial
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
GraphicsCard:
 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cape Verde XT [Radeon HD 7770/8760 / R7 250X] [1002:683d] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Cape Verde XT [Radeon HD 7770/8760 / R7 250X] [1682:3232]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-07-29 (565 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer INC. CM6330_CM6630_CM6730_CM6830-8
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-62-generic root=UUID=458544bf-05e1-4b76-93ee-1c5cfa8f7683 ro quiet splash usbcore.autosuspend=-1 vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-06-03 (256 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 08/27/2012
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 0402
dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: CM6330_CM6630_CM6730_CM6830
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
dmi.board.version: Rev x.0x
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dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
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dmi.product.name: CM6330_CM6630_CM6730_CM6830-8
dmi.product.version: System Version
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.12.2+16.04.20160823-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.67-1ubuntu0.16.04.2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 11.2.0-1ubuntu2.2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 11.2.0-1ubuntu2.2
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.2
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.10.1-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.7.0-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20160325-1ubuntu1.2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.12-1build2
xserver.bootTime: Tue Feb 14 12:39:26 2017
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors:

xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.version: 2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.2
xserver.video_driver: radeon

[Simon Rigét (simon-riget)]

Bug is related, and probably caused by gedit.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner.

I'm setting the status of this bug to 'Incomplete' as it's not seen any activity for some time. If this is still an issue when using a currently maintained release of Ubuntu then please let us know which one(s) otherwise this bug report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for xorg (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]