Finally fixed in trunk, I believe. Not a duplicate of bug #837456 after all. It took rewriting key parts of virtkey and a number of workarounds at the python level, so regression potential is high-ish. However I didn't notice any remaining issues after rev. 2151. I believe it's ready for more exposure.
I'll ask Francesco for a snapshot so you can try it. If you get any weird behavior, like say stuck SHIFT, CTRL, etc., let me know. ** Changed in: onboard Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to onboard in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1562381 Title: Typing special characters with non-US layout get repeated indefinitely Status in Onboard: Fix Committed Status in onboard package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Typing special characters like .,:;-()"@# (and other) or numbers with non-US keyboard layout get repeated indefinitely, like this: тест............................................................................................... This will continue to happen untl other symbol is entered or other button is pressed. Reproducible with GTK and Xinput. Testng was done on Ubuntu Gnome 16.04. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: onboard 1.2.0-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-15.31-generic 4.4.6 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-15-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Sun Mar 27 02:29:05 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-03-19 (6 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160319) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: onboard UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/onboard/+bug/1562381/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp