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GogglesGuy

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From: Rocket City

Registered: 2005-03-29

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Xorg / Keyboard / Firefox problem?

Weird problem... Started happening yesterday, somehow my keyboard locks up but not totally.

For example, I'm typing something and suddenly it locks up (as if the input is busy). I cannot enter anymore keys, but the mouse still works, except for any dragging operations. Button clicks work fine, but dragging windows around not. Now I do get normal keyboard functionality back by switching to the console and back. In that respect, not all keyboard operations are dead.

On the console I'm also getting the following output (repeated many times):

(firefox:5702): Gdk-Warning **: XID collision, trouble ahead

I'm suspecting these may be related.

Anyone else noticed this as well?

Gen2ly

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From: Sevierville, TN

Registered: 2009-03-06

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Re: Xorg / Keyboard / Firefox problem?

This may have to do with xorg 1.6 new keyboard repeat behavior?

I read in the wine forums that a couple games would have problems because of it, possibly it's related.  Their fix was to:

xset -r 24
xset -r 25
xset -r 26
xset -r 38
xset -r 39
xset -r 40

Before playing the game.  Probably won't help but might be worth a try.

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toxygen

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Registered: 2008-08-22

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Re: Xorg / Keyboard / Firefox problem?

On the console I'm also getting the following output (repeated many times):

(firefox:5702): Gdk-Warning **: XID collision, trouble ahead

I'm getting that warning a lot today, mainly while watching youtube on firefox.  no keyboard/mouse problems that i can tell though.

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GogglesGuy

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From: Rocket City

Registered: 2005-03-29

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Re: Xorg / Keyboard / Firefox problem?

This may have to do with xorg 1.6 new keyboard repeat behavior?

I read in the wine forums that a couple games would have problems because of it, possibly it's related.  Their fix was to:

xset -r 24
xset -r 25
xset -r 26
xset -r 38
xset -r 39
xset -r 40

Before playing the game.  Probably won't help but might be worth a try.

Interesting... but the problem seems to be gone since yesterday. At least I haven't experienced again. Now the XID collision warning is still there, so may not be related...

Gen2ly

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From: Sevierville, TN

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Re: Xorg / Keyboard / Firefox problem?

XID collisions, can be Totally Ignored!

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GogglesGuy

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From: Rocket City

Registered: 2005-03-29

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Re: Xorg / Keyboard / Firefox problem?

XID collisions, can be Totally Ignored!

If they can, they shouldn't be filling up my console...

harryNID

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From: P3X-1971

Registered: 2009-06-12

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Re: Xorg / Keyboard / Firefox problem?

Apparently this is a bug!

It's been filed here if you want to view:

http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-2253

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Yaro

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Registered: 2009-04-03

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Re: Xorg / Keyboard / Firefox problem?

I had this while watching vids, too. I bet restarting X would clear it up, if not rebooting altogether?

whoops

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Registered: 2009-03-19

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Re: Xorg / Keyboard / Firefox problem?

No idea if that's related, but I had firefox 3.5 for a while now already and I noticed that sometimes a window wouldn't accept the keyboard any more (until firefox was restarted). This happened mostly when I used wine and/or virtualbox, didn't really bother to figure it out as it wasn't very often.

gav616

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Registered: 2008-01-16

Posts: 182

Re: Xorg / Keyboard / Firefox problem?

This may have to do with xorg 1.6 new keyboard repeat behavior?

I read in the wine forums that a couple games would have problems because of it, possibly it's related.  Their fix was to:

xset -r 24
xset -r 25
xset -r 26
xset -r 38
xset -r 39
xset -r 40

Before playing the game.  Probably won't help but might be worth a try.

I tried this  when running Steam, Q doesn't repeat but other letters do.

maybe someone could create a little script that does 'xset r off' before executing the game, then on the games exit sets the 'xset r on'.

possible?

Last edited by gav616 (2009-08-06 12:58:45)

gav616

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Registered: 2008-01-16

Posts: 182

Re: Xorg / Keyboard / Firefox problem?

any news on xserver fix/patch for this key repeat behaviour?

toad

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Re: Xorg / Keyboard / Firefox problem?

My .xsession-errors is full of that stuff and it is getting bigger and bigger... Also experiencing the odd keyboard hang using firefox.

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gav616

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Registered: 2008-01-16

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Re: Xorg / Keyboard / Firefox problem?

i found this works well anyway...

#!/bin/bash
cd ~/games/goodgame
export WINEPREFIX=~/games/goodgame/.wine
xset r off
wine ggame.exe ; xset r on ; unset WINEPREFIX ; echo "][ goodgame ended and keyboard repeat re-enabled ]["

obviously replace the relevant stuff....

Last edited by gav616 (2009-09-10 20:55:01)