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souls-seb

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Registered: 2006-09-30

Posts: 26

Beryl makes keys sticky

I've been trying out Beryl on Gnome and XFCE for quite some time now, and it seems to work really nice and stable.
Except that, once in a while, when I press a key it is as if it stays pressed.
This can lead to disastrous results, as Firefox will suddenly open 100+ tabs when I only requested one, or Gnome will open an infinite number of Terminals when I press Ctrl+Alt+T, and completely freeze the system.
It seems to happen more when the CPU usage is high, like when I press Alt+Tab for the Switcher or rotate the cube.

I haven't been able to find any mention of this 'bug' elsewhere, or any way to fix it. Maybe you can help me?

jbromley

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 268

Re: Beryl makes keys sticky

I have had this problem on other distros (Ubuntu and openSUSE) so it looks like it's probably some kind of XGL or Beryl problem. No amount of futzing with keyboard paramenters in the Beryl settings manager or xorg.conf made any difference. I have found a couple of other references to the problem but no solutions. Once the novelty of the effects wore off, I went back to normal KWin. I'm waiting for a more stable version of XGL/Beryl now.

Regards.