[Spice-devel] Bug : KeyEvent up not sent?

[Alon Levy]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:45:15PM +0100, Frédéric Grelot wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> I'm currently using Spice to develop on a remote computer (more powerfull than my laptop, which makes me spare quite a lot of time waiting for the builds!), and I come to a quite annoying bug when I use it : relatively often, some event seem not to be sent.
> The most noticeable is a keyevent up, since the character keeps printing, but I cannot say that other events are not dropped. I waited for few seconds and the event is definitely lost : the only way to stop the characters from printing (or removing if I pressed backspace!) is to press/release another key.
> I don't really know how to get more information about this bug : there is nothing in the logs (client, server, and tail -f /var/log/* on the guest shows nothing).
> My versions are as follow : 
> -server : git, spice.kvm.v28, fedora 14, all updates
> -client : built from git, 0.7.3, Ubuntu 10.10, all updates
> -guest : fedora 14, all updates
> 
> This is quite annoying, since it happens almost once every 20 key pressed I would say, which is quite a lot!
> It happens whether I am in fullscreen or not.
> 
> Tell me if you need more information about this, I would be pleased to help!

What kind of network? I mean, can you reproduce this with localhost? (client == server) Or can you create
some synthetic environment to trigger it? Is it a specific key (ok, I'm reaching)? Does it happen when the guest
is in X only, or also console?
> 
> Frederic.
> _______________________________________________
> Spice-devel mailing list
> Spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel