Bug 5765

Summary: multimedia keys shouldn't repead
Product: xorg Reporter: Imre Pentek <pentek.imre>
Component: Input/KeyboardAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: high CC: rasasi78
Version: 7.0.0   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:
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Description Flags
simple swap of key functions
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xf86-input-keyboard-korean_keyboard_keyup_event.diff none

Description Imre Pentek 2006-01-31 03:27:37 UTC 
If I press a letter-button (or any normal button) for a moment, it will type one
letter. If I press it for a long time it will type several letters. Now that is
OK. The problem is if I press a multimedia button for a moment it won't have any
effect. If I press it too long time it will launch the application several times
(so I will have several instances of (say) Mozilla). So these buttons shouldn't
have to repeat. Previously it worked correctly...
Affected buttons are: 178,236 and scan code e001
And anyways volume up and volume down (174 and 176) is intended to repeat.
kernel team found out that this bug is a userspace bug
(http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5780), and the affected keys are
bound to F13-F15 by ~/.Xmodmap, and interpreted as a hotkey by
/usr/share/icewm/keys, so most probably an X bug.
Showkey shows several key press events for volume kontrol keys, so (if I really
understand the problem) you should only suppress key repetition, if
kernel/hardware does not request autorepeat explicitly.
Comment 1 Imre Pentek 2006-02-08 03:51:49 UTC 
Can I help solving this bug by providing more details? May I attach config
files, program outputs, etc?
Comment 2 Imre Pentek 2006-05-31 05:58:55 UTC 
Still present in 7.1. Ask for details, if you need.
Thanks.
Comment 3 Daniel Stone 2007-02-27 01:30:12 UTC 
Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys.  Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.
Comment 4 Imre Pentek 2007-12-31 09:38:40 UTC 
still present when using Gentoo 2007.0 with xorg-server 1.4.0.90
Just tell me if you need more info, I would be glad to help solving this bug, maybe you can give hints what to test.
Comment 5 Jory A. Pratt 2008-01-07 20:25:01 UTC 
Created attachment 13579 [details]
simple swap of key functions

  * Let keycodes 209 and 210 pass through; they're Hangul and Hangul_Hanja
    keys, needed for Korean keyboards to function correctly.  This fix is
    mostly a band-aid since XKB doesn't have a way to specify that "this
    key doesn't give you keydown and keyup events"

Until someone finds a way to work around this issue I do not see any multimedia key issues being resolved.
Comment 6 Jory A. Pratt 2008-01-07 20:26:48 UTC 
Created attachment 13580 [details]
xf86-input-keyboard-korean_keyboard_keyup_event.diff

Sorry wrong file uploaded.
Comment 7 Adam Jackson 2018-06-12 19:07:51 UTC 
Mass closure: This bug has been untouched for more than six years, and is not
obviously still valid. Please reopen this bug or file a new report if you continue to experience issues with current releases.

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