Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Title:
keyboard autorepeat not happening when I hold down any key
Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
The failure to auto repeat happens in all terminal apps I've tried in
Artful. If I open a virtual console, it looks like a phantom is typing
^@ about once per second. This prevents successfully typing a
password, and is probably what is breaking autorepeat in the GUI
terminals, although they don't show the ^@. Gnome terminal and guake
also can't stay scrolled up in the buffer for more than a second
before popping back down to the bottom.
This problem happens in the Ubuntu desktop or Gnome and it doesn't
matter if I pick the xorg or default Wayland options. It happens under
both the open source and proprietary nvidia drivers. It also happens
with a newly created user with no home directory baggage.
xev reports a constant stream of the following about the same frequency as
the ^@ in console:
KeyPress event, serial 62, synthetic NO, window 0x3800001,
root 0x1dd, subw 0x0, time 2243032, (20,-13), root:(1375,501),
state 0x10, keycode 221 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
If I boot into a recovery shell, the problem does _not_ appear.
My system was built with a fresh install of 17.04, installed my usual
packages, then upgrade to 17.10 when the problem began. I'm certain it
was not present in 17.04 for the few days before I upgraded. There
were similar bugs reported a decade ago, but didn't help me.
Expectation: Hold down any key in terminal window. After a moment, the
letter should repeat until key is released.
Actually: Key will repeat 0 or a few times, but stop repeating before
I release the key.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-terminal 3.24.2-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-12.13-generic 4.13.3
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7:ubuntu
Date: Mon Oct 9 10:43:56 2017
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-05 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-10-05 (3 days ago)
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