Why does X11 generate an extra SHIFT when I press Shift+KP_1 ?

[Peter Hutterer]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 12:26:17AM +0530, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote:
> Yes Andreas, you are absolutely right.
> Thank you so much for your help. In my defense I never knew VirtualBox
> could stab you in the back like this. I guess you learn something new every
> day. I just wish I hadn't bothered all of you.

FTR, next time you see similar issues run libinput record against the
keyboard device node and that will tell you whether the weirdness comes from
the device itself (which would include virtual box in this case) or whether
it's on a higher level in the stack.

libinput record prints the events coming out of the kernel, so it can nicely
separate where an issue occurs. The output takes a little bit of getting
used to, but interpreting keyboard events is trivial enough.

Cheers,
   Peter
 
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 12:21 AM Sreyan Chakravarty <sreyan32 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Sorry to have been a bother. I have inadvertently solved my own issue. And
> > the issue was Oracle VirtualBox. I am writing this from a live boot on
> > Manjaro i3 and everything works as expected. No weird or mysterious
> > keystrokes in xev. Thank you for all you help. I am sorry to have bothered
> > you with this.
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 9:15 PM Sreyan Chakravarty <sreyan32 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> > -- some keyboard switching applet, that uses XTest to do that.
> >>
> >> I doubt that this some application running in the background because I
> >> have faced this problem on MX Linux XFCE, Fedora KDE, Manjaro KDE, Manjaro
> >> KDE.
> >>
> >> There is one detail that I have left out and I don't see how that can
> >> affect anything ----- I am running in VirtualBox. All these OSes I have
> >> tested in Oracle VirtualBox, my host OS is Windows 8.1 which handles
> >> Shift+KP_1 with numlock on perfectly.
> >>
> >> So the question is that is there any way VirtualBox can be causing this,
> >> I don't think it is interfering but you be the judge of that.
> >>
> >> > -- some strange intellectual behaviour of the hardware (keyboard
> >> itself).
> >>
> >> I hope not. Windows seems to handle this perfectly.
> >>
> >> Output of  :
> >> xkbcomp "$DISPLAY" /tmp/dump.xkb
> >>
> >> https://pastebin.com/trELUzsP
> >>
> >> It is 1912 lines so I used pastebin.
> >>
> >> Please let me know if you find anything.
> >>
> >> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 12:22 PM Sreyan Chakravarty <sreyan32 at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> If I print my current layout can you help me with the rules that are set
> >>> for the numpad?
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, 18 Feb 2020, 12:19 pm Sreyan Chakravarty, <sreyan32 at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> So what do I do now? Where do I report a bug?
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tue, 18 Feb 2020, 1:17 am James Cloos, <cloos at jhcloos.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> yes, for that kb it prob is not any of the weird hw things i've
> >>>>> encountered.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> not sure why it could do that, then...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> -JimC
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> James Cloos <cloos at jhcloos.com>         OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Regards,
> >> Sreyan Chakravarty
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Sreyan Chakravarty
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Sreyan Chakravarty

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