Ubuntu

Stuck Keys

Asked by m33hack

HELP!
I am having problems with keys "sticking" down in wine, Firefox, evolution and compiz the problems easy to recreate by holding down the page down key for a few seconds it will no "depress" the key i have changed keyboards updates searched but to no luck. During wine the 'w' key gets stuck causing FPS games to walk uncontrollably. evolution will continually delete mail. please help i have tried removing compiz but nothing seems to work. I am running Ubuntu 64-bit 8.04 with all the updates

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This question was originally filed as bug #206197.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) said : 		#1

Thank you for your comments. This does not appear to be a bug report and we are closing it. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise your question in the support tracker. https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu

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Asa Ayers (asa-ayers) said : 		#2

It looks to me like you may be using the mouse at the same time as pressing a key, which causes this bug in 8.04. According to this bug its been fixed in the last couple days, but I haven't confirmed it.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/194214

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