GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 772844
Freeze on X11 when holding F11 key for a moment
Last modified: 2021-07-05 14:28:58 UTC
In most applications F11 toggles between fullscreen window and normal mode window. If I hold F11 for a split second on gnome-terminal, gnome-shell freezes permanently in what it seems to be some kind of a loop. This issue happens only on x11, not on wayland or xwayland.
Same problem with firefox. Use xdotool to generate F11 key in gnome-terminal, you can produce this problem. >xdotool key F11 F11 If there is time delay between two F11 keys, problem disappear. On my PC, when time delay is more than 200ms, problem disappear. >xdotool key --delay 200 F11 F11
When this happens, gnome-shell runs into a busy loop and logs this line to journal several times per second: Key repeat discarded, Wayland compositor doesn't seem to be processing events fast enough! I'm running gnome 3.24 on Wayland here.
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