Ah, I am pretty sure I recognize this. The symptoms and behaviors match an ancient and well known X11 bug that I dug into some years ago, and you can read my findings in comment #310 of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/124406.
The sticky repeat is due (as I understood it -- this is a bit speculative) to a race condition in tracking and updating the key down and up states. The issue tends to be hard to reproduce when you do have it, and hard to get rid of when you do, because triggering the misbehavior depends on several low level components stepping on each others' toes at just the right time to lose the keyup -- or something like that. If you're lucky, sometimes just randomly upgrading or downgrading one of these components (or switching keyboards, reinstalling things, etc.) can be enough to get the timings desynchronized (or whatever). This might explain why there are so many claimed "solutions" by forum posters and bug comments, that rarely seem to work for anyone but that one guy, and why the problem keeps cropping up in random situations. I'd thought at the time maybe Wayland would finally solve this, however I've seen scattered reports of people seeing the same problem there, so maybe it's just one of those oddball unsolvable bugs. A commonly used workaround is to disable keyboard repeat, either in GNOME settings, or via xset r rate (see man xset, and note you may need to re-run xset periodically). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1859545 Title: Sticky keys repeat indefinitely unless if pressed again To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1859545/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
