Super key not registered if held too long

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄]

In the latest daily PPA build of Unity..

Press super quickly and the dash appears
Hold down super for "too long" and it doesn't.

This is "too long"..

KeyPress event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x4800001,
    root 0x297, subw 0x0, time 987630, (164,688), root:(219,740),
    state 0x0, keycode 133 (keysym 0xffeb, Super_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x4800001,
    root 0x297, subw 0x0, time 987902, (164,688), root:(219,740),
    state 0x40, keycode 133 (keysym 0xffeb, Super_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

This is fast enough...

KeyPress event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x4800001,
    root 0x297, subw 0x0, time 1036733, (197,791), root:(252,843),
    state 0x0, keycode 133 (keysym 0xffeb, Super_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x4800001,
    root 0x297, subw 0x0, time 1036805, (197,791), root:(252,843),
    state 0x40, keycode 133 (keysym 0xffeb, Super_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: unity 6.12.0daily13.01.07-0ubuntu1 [origin: LP-PPA-ubuntu-unity-daily-build]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.7.0-7.15-generic 3.7.0
Uname: Linux 3.7.0-7-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.7-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CrashDB: unity
Date: Tue Jan 8 09:01:39 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-01-02 (371 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120102)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

I thought this was an intentional design decision. Unity still has a time limit because we can't always enable reliable tap detection on the Compiz side. And there was another good reason thumper had for keeping the time limit even when Compiz did have tap detection on.

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

After a discussion on IRC, we'll reset it to 250ms, we have 5 people who thought that was a bug due to a too short limit constraint.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 6.12.0daily13.01.11.2-0ubuntu1

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unity (6.12.0daily13.01.11.2-0ubuntu1) raring; urgency=low

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