Bug 112217
Summary: | Left shift key stops working with auto-repeat | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Chris Underhill <bugzilla.redhat.com> |
Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 9 | ||
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Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | athlon | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2004-01-22 13:43:53 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Chris Underhill
2003-12-16 11:33:23 UTC
Did the same problem occur with stock RHL 9? How about Fedora Core 1? I don't have another machine on which to put Fedora but do have another which has not yet been fully updated and still has XFree86-4.3.0-2 from RH9. Admittedly it's running a non-RH kernel (2.4.22-pre4) and has a different graphics card (Intel i810), but on that machine, the left shift works fine. I'll update various packages on it and see if/when it breaks. The keyboard section from my XF86Config on both machines contains: Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "keyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "gb" After some investigation, this is not a bug but a feature of running gxine, which mimics the sending of the left shift key to stop the X screensaver activating. The offending line is, with version 0.3.3, gtkxine.c:160 - changing the key faked from XK_Shift_L to XK_Shift_R lets the left shift key work properly again, but causes the right shift key to malfunction instead. This is however much more comfortable to my right-handed two-fingered typing :-) |