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RE: Stutter stepping characters / half speed running
by Peter Seebach on Saturday March 13th 2010, 2:39
I think that's a workaround, not a fix. Basically, the underlying problem is an X server bug -- the X server is sending key-up events during key repeats, which it shouldn't.
Disabling repeat, of course, does fix it -- but it's not really a correct solution, it's just one that works around the obvious symptom.
This should be fixed in at least some distros within a year or so... It's fixed already in x.org, distros are just running behind.