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Re: [Qemu-devel] Key repeat is no longer working on TTY and grub menu
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Markus Armbruster |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Key repeat is no longer working on TTY and grub menu |
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Wed, 13 Feb 2019 07:01:35 +0100 |
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Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden> writes:
> Yes, this is another regression accidentally introduced by the keyboard
> state tracker.
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> When GTK does key repeat it omits the Up event for repeated keys.
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> IOW, you get
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> Press (a)
> Press (a)
> Press (a)
> Release (a)
This is how keyboards commonly do it, if I remember correctly.
> Not
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> Press (a)
> Release (a)
> Press (a)
> Release (a)
> Press (a)
> Release (a)
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> The keyboard state tracker doesn't take this into account, so it is
> surpressing all except the first Press event.
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> This might affect other frontends too if they use the same trick for
> key repeat
Plausible.