Dear Bryce, I appreciate you taking the time to draft such an extensive and detailed response. I gather, despite my present ignorance, that the Xorg algorithms are switching to ones called Jaunty, or if I missed that, that there is a chance the bug will not appear in the latest versions. Also, I understand your workload and know that you all must prioritize these bugs. Its not exactly a lethal problem! For now, I will of course not bypass you all to Freedesktop but will rather wait and see what happens. I don't mind to join the queue, particularly since I'm only at present contributing to bug lists and mostly just enjoying the ease of Ubuntu.
Best, Glenn ________________________________ From: Bryce Harrington <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 6:49:02 PM Subject: Re: [Bug 337025] Re: Repeating arrow keys change to numbers. Not num lock. On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:13:09PM -0000, Glenn Diebolt Jackson wrote: > Dear Bryce, > I know you're busy, but I'm curious: why didn't anyone respond to the > bug? Was it left unassigned? Quite simply, it's as you said - we're really busy. We have over 1500 X.org bugs, and it's hard to get to every single one. I typically focus my time on bug reports that are known to affect the current development version, and that already have all the necessary files attached. To help people get bugs up to a reviewable state, I've created some scripts to auto-respond and ask for files, request users test, etc. In fact, my comment #6 was from one of these scripts. If the request goes unanswered, then the bug is automatically closed as expired after 30 days. > I'll be happy to file it again. I do update Ubuntu every day and have > noticed no improvement. I'll try the latest full release as soon as > it changes. Thank you for your help and for your note. Many bugs, especially keyboard and mouse bugs, got fixed automatically when we pulled new code from upstream for Jaunty. The path a bug takes is different if it is still in the development version, vs. if it's fixed there, so we wait on putting time into a bug until we know what path it needs to go. Unfortunately, given that Jaunty is nearly released, if you find it is solved there, we probably wouldn't bother to backport the fix to Intrepid at this point, we'd just suggest people upgrade. Backporting fixes is pretty time intensive. If by chance you find the issue still exists in Jaunty, the next step for us would be to forward the bug upstream. You are welcome to bypass us entirely, and file it upstream at http://bugs.freedesktop.org. If you then give us the bug id#, we can track it and pull in the fix to Karmic (and *maybe* Jaunty if the fix looks safe enough) when it becomes available. -- Repeating arrow keys change to numbers. Not num lock. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/337025 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. Status in “xorg-server” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: openoffice.org Dear Launchpad & OOo folks, Lovely new version of OOo Writer. Thank you. I have a single problem, a strange one: When using the keyboard to highlight, for instance, when I hold down shift and then the arrow keys: At an unpredictable rate, when the movement starts repeating (moving faster), the arrow key changes to a number, always either 4 (more common) or 6 (less common.) The result is that what I have highlighted is rewritten to a 4 or 6 or series thereof. Quickly thereafter, my control key turns into a sticky key, such that any arrow or scroll-wheel or key action functions as if CTRL is depressed. Pressing CTRL a few times turns that back off. This is inconvenient because when editing, it's easy to replace text that I wished only to embolden, italicize, or underline can turn into 4s & 6s, and if I do notice, it's hard to get back because CTRL is faux-depressed. I would love an update when this is fixed. I believe you know, but I'm running a Vaio with no other problems. OO2.4 didn't have this bug. I'll be updating daily! I you have questions, please email. Thank you much for your community work. My system & my work are faster because of you all. Glenn Professor of English & Derivations ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10 NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal Package: openoffice.org-core 1:3.0.1-1ubuntu1~intrepid1 ProcEnviron: PATH=/usr/lib/openoffice/program:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: openoffice.org Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686 UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package -- Repeating arrow keys change to numbers. Not num lock. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/337025 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
