[Spice-devel] Missing key and mouse release events

John A. Sullivan III jsullivan at opensourcedevel.com
Mon Jul 25 11:19:25 PDT 2011


On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 11:00 +0300, Alon Levy wrote: 
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 03:47:30AM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > Hello, all.  This is happening enough now that I don't think it is my
> > imagination.  It seems that SPICE sometimes either does not detect that
> > I have released a key or is slow in doing so.
> > 
> > On quite a number of occasions, my input started behaving strangely.
> > Menu options would not work, it appeared my CAPS lock was on but not
> > quite.  Then I realized that the SHIFT key was stuck.  I pressed and
> > released it again and normal functionality returned.  Again, this was
> > not a one-off event but happened several times.
> > 
> > Just now, I was testing a strange but potentially common scenario in our
> > environment where my SPICE client was running an X2Go session on the
> > SPICE guest to a third system.  Sometimes the scroll bars did not seem
> > to realize I had released the mouse button.  On occasion, I would press
> > delete and an entire block of text would disappear or I'd press space
> > and a row of spaces would appear.
> > 
> > Has anyone else seen this behavior? I thought I would ask before opening
> > it as a bug.  Thanks - John
> > 
> 
> Please open a bug. I remember seeing missed keys but not recently and I
> don't know how to reproduce, would be good if you provided the details.
Looks like it has already been reported. I wish I could reproduce it
reliably! I'll keep my eyes open for anything I can catch that might be
of help - John



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