I have had trouble with keys getting "stuck" and autorepeating until some key press. I believe the problem is related to clients grabbing the keyboard for some(?) time. The attached patch seems to cure this.

I have only seen the problem in xserver 1.6, not 1.5 or master.

/Kim
>From 35dcb78d84261efb591cccef5271f424bea0cf7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kim Woelders <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:55:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix key repeat problem.


Signed-off-by: Kim Woelders <[email protected]>
---
 dix/events.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dix/events.c b/dix/events.c
index f15c460..5388a16 100644
--- a/dix/events.c
+++ b/dix/events.c
@@ -1161,7 +1161,7 @@ EnqueueEvent(xEvent *xE, DeviceIntPtr device, int count)
 #ifdef XKB
     /* Fix for key repeating bug. */
     if (device->key != NULL && device->key->xkbInfo != NULL &&
-	xE->u.u.type == KeyRelease)
+	(xE->u.u.type == KeyRelease || xE->u.u.type == DeviceKeyRelease))
 	AccessXCancelRepeatKey(device->key->xkbInfo, xE->u.u.detail);
 #endif
 
-- 
1.6.3.3

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