some keyboard keys repeat when they should not

[tonyforster]

XO-1.75 OS40 clicky HS keyboard no autorepeat

[Quozl]

Doesn't reproduce here on XO-1.75 with mechanical keyboard, but I'm using Q4B08. Tried in virtual console and terminal, using the g key. Both worked fine.

[tonyforster]

Mine is q4b07

Easily reproduced here, rebooted twice and still there

test case: journal search or rename journal entry or Terminal

[greenfeld]

Upgrading to Q4B08 might help os40 determine how your 1.75 is equipped a bit better.

Keyboard repeats work for me in os40/Q4B08 for XO-1.75 on the Linux text console and at the Open Firmware prompt. X Windows/Sugar does not show repeat working for most alphanumeric keys, but it does work for keys like the backspace key. Tested with both mechanical and membrane keyboards.

Paul Fox notes this may be intentional; /usr/bin/sugar-session has an xset -r line which disables autorepeat for "several keys" and then goes on to name a few dozen. But os2/11.3.0 on XO-1/XO-1.5 does not disable autorepeat in Sugar, or something is re-enabling it.

[tonyforster]

upgraded to q4b08, repeat does not function in sugar or gnome

tried firmware prompt , repeat works there

[pgf]

i believe this is working as intended. disable the "xset -r ...." command in /usr/bin/olpc-session, and repeat will function fully. i believe disabling repeat was done for the sake of the children, but i can't say for sure -- the behavior pre-dates my time at OLPC. (ah -- see #1201)

i just checked an XO-1 running 10.1.3 (build 360), and another running something much older, and both have repeating arrows and backspaces, but not printing characters. (i'm referring to X behavior -- repeating works fully in a VT console.)

however, i do see that 11.3.0 builds, both os1 and os2, have full repeating -- which implies a bug, since i think olpc-session there should be the same.

[Quozl]

agreed, we should fix 11.3.0 to turn off autorepeat, rather than introduce autorepeat on populations that have never had it before.

[dsd]

Seems like we have a regression in 11.3.0 indeed, and an important one IMO. Will look into this.

[dsd]

Initial diagnosis: setup_keyboard_cb in /usr/bin/sugar-session is applying keyboard settings, which override the autorepeat disable settings that were programmed previously by olpc-session.

[dsd]

This bug is also in 11.2.0 so actually it is a regression over 10.1.x. The keyboard dialog support code is applying keyboard settings even if the user didn't choose any, overriding whatever the system might have set.

Fixed with:

• http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2011-October/033692.html
• http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2011-October/033693.html

[martin.langhoff]

(In #11264) In fact, disabling setup_keyboard_cb in sugar-session fixes the issue.

[dsd]

committed upstream and included in sugar-0.94.0.7.gf01a6c3-1.fc14.olpc

[dsd]

test in 11.3.0 candidate build 881

[tonyforster]

OS881, alphanumeric keys do not repeat, del, backspace and cursor keys do repeat

[godiard]

Tested with mechanichal and membrane keyboard in os881, alphanumeric keys do not repeat, del, backspace and cursor keys do repeat

[tonyforster]

Tested OK in OS882

[erikos]

Tested as working fine in upcoming 883.

[erikos]

Two persons tested positively, closing.