Bug#516028: xserver-xorg-input-all: Key and mouse acting weird after dist-upgrade Debian testing (escape sequence injection)
> Mark wrote:
> > - On the kdm logon screen I noticed a weird behaviour of my keyboard, I was not able to log in.
> > - I switched to the console. On the console the keyboard behaved correctly.
> > - I activated the automatic login feature in kdm and rebootet the system.
> > - The system rebooted and directly logged into my KDE session. The system looked as before.
> > - When typing on the keyboard, I noticed that every other key a new window opened, or another command executed.
> > - I then noticed, that there is a pattern to this behaviour.
> > - After starting xev and pressing the letter "g" two times I received this log:
> >
> > KeyPress event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x3000001, root 0x88,
> > subw 0x0, time 180149, (474,128), root:(475,171), state 0x0, keycode
> > 42 (keysym 0x67, g), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 1 bytes:
> > (67) "g" XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (67) "g" XFilterEvent
> > returns: False
> >
> > KeyRelease event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window
> > 0x3000001, root 0x88, subw 0x0, time 180493, (474,128),
> > root:(475,171), state 0x5, keycode 42 (keysym 0x47, G), same_screen
> > YES, XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (07) "" XFilterEvent returns:
> > False
> >
> > KeyPress event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x3000001, root
> > 0x88, subw 0x0, time 180859, (474,128), root:(475,171), state 0x5,
> > keycode 42 (keysym 0x47, G), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 1
> > bytes: (07) "" XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (07) "" XFilterEvent
> > returns: False
> >
> > KeyRelease event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window
> > 0x3000001, root 0x88, subw 0x0, time 181154, (474,128),
> > root:(475,171), state 0x5, keycode 42 (keysym 0x47, G), same_screen
> > YES, XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (07) "" XFilterEvent returns:
> > False
> >
> > - Interestingly, although I pressed "g" twice, only the first event reflects that choice. The other events look as if I pressed control key.
> > - Another strange fact is that I do have no repeating key functionality on the system anymore. If I want to write "ggg" I have to press the letter "g" three times (or actually six times for every second time I trigger a command, like new window, duplicate window, bookmark...)
> > - The xorg.conf file did not change since quite some time. So I am very sure that the configuration is (still) OK.
> >
>
> Don't be so sure. Please send your config and log.
Probably a dupe of the other libxi6 bugs?
Cheers,
Julien
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