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Bug 354329 - letters appear multiple time
letters appear multiple time
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: vte
Classification: Core
Component: general
0.34.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: VTE Maintainers
VTE Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-09-04 19:19 UTC by Tomasz Torcz
Modified: 2021-06-10 13:32 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.9/3.10


Description Tomasz Torcz 2006-09-04 19:19:28 UTC 
Alnost always when starting to type in a terminal, which wasn't active
for some times, first letter is multiplicated. Sometimes I start
to type "cd sth" and I get "cccccccccd sth". Sometimes multiplicated letter
fills the screen. It also happen when pasting into inactive terminal,
first letter is entered multiple times.

Maybe its related to bug #345284?
Comment 1 Behdad Esfahbod 2008-11-29 06:28:01 UTC 
Still reproducible?  Been a while.
Comment 2 Tomasz Torcz 2008-11-30 20:39:30 UTC 
Still, but very rare. Original report was on Ubuntu, now I'm using Fedora.
Comment 3 Egmont Koblinger 2014-01-22 02:45:19 UTC 
I remember a long time ago seeing such duplication when a heavy X operation was requested. E.g. after typing "setxkbmap us" or "xlsfonts -l" the Enter that was used to launch that command was doubled. I think it was a bug in X. I haven't seen such in the last few years, I assume it's been fixed.
Comment 4 Tomasz Torcz 2014-01-22 06:34:39 UTC 
No, still happens from time to time on Fedora 20 (vte-0.28.2).
Comment 5 Christian Persch 2014-01-22 10:36:25 UTC 
0.28.2 is the (unmaintained!) last gtk2 release. Please test with vte3 >= 0.35.1 .
Comment 6 Tomasz Torcz 2014-01-22 10:44:28 UTC 
Sorry, I reported this bug 7 years ago. Indeed it's changed, now gnome-terminal is gtk3 app.
Anyway, this problem appears with vte3-0.34.9 on Fedora 20. I see if I can get 0.35 installed.
Comment 7 Egmont Koblinger 2014-01-22 12:36:16 UTC 
Could you please test whether during running "xlsfont -l" or "setxkbmap us" the keys you type get duplicated or not? (Including the enter that accepts the command. If you just press enter to execute the command and nothing else, and two new prompts appear, that's the same duplication issue.)

Does "xlsfonts -l" block your complete X for a second or two? (No keypress reflected, no mouse etc.)

Thanks for testing with a new version. 0.34.9 vs 0.35 shouldn't make a difference, don't bother upgrading just because of this.
Comment 8 Tomasz Torcz 2014-02-10 19:57:32 UTC 
"xlsfonts -l" block whole session for 1-2 seconds.
Comment 9 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-06-10 13:32:01 UTC 
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