Key repeats forever if a shell popover steals focus during a keypress

Thank you for your bug report. Is that in a standard Ubuntu session, under x11 or wayland? could you attach the journalctl log from around the time of the problem?

I experienced a similar issue today. I ran `snap install app` in my terminal. It popped up a PolicyKit login window and my terminal started filling with empty input lines.

Around the same time, I had this in my journal log repeatedly:

gnome-shell: Object 0x5614373df110 of type IBusText has been finalized while it was still owned by gjs, this is due to invalid memory management.

Therefore, I'm reassigning to gnome-shell and ibus. I don't think this issue is specific to gnome-terminal. You might eventually see it with a different terminal.

I am using the default Ubuntu session on Wayland.

The log message in comment #2 is bug 1965673. I'm seeing it in everyone's logs today, including my own. And without using password dialogs. So unassigning ibus here. Use bug 1965673 for that.

I personally don't think this should be low priority - this affects any application which ends up causing the gnome shell prompt dialog to appear - so in my case when reading my email and opening a GPG encrypted email I get prompted for my GPG passphrase - whilst this is happening my email client is repeatedly getting <Return> sent to it, causing it to advance forward to the next email and mark the current one as read - so this has a real usability impact IMO. This is not just relevant to terminal applications etc.

It might be related to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/2189 but ideally someone should (please) open a new upstream bug to be sure: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues

Upstream bug filed https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/5242

Daniel, could you work on this one?

The conversation is mostly in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/2194 now.

This bug was fixed in the package mutter - 42.0-3ubuntu1

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mutter (42.0-3ubuntu1) jammy; urgency=medium

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * debian/patches: Cherry-pick various upstream commits for 42.1:
    + onscreen/native: Fall back if COPY_MODE_SECONDARY_GPU fails to init
      (LP: #1964037, #1959888)
  * debian/patches: Allow any drag timestamp as drag start serial (LP: #1964541)
  * debian/patches: Move x11-fractional scaling under ubuntu namespace
  * debian/patches: Account ClutterStage grabs on Wayland key focus sync
    (LP: #1964442)
  * debian/libmutter-10-0.symbols: Update including new internal symbols
  * debian/patches: Avoid memory errors when comparing gamma values
  * debian/patches: Fix privacy-screen and connectors updates with
    triple-buffering (LP: #1966178)
  * debian/patches: Ensure privacy screen settings are applied on startup
    (LP: #1966178)

  [ Jeremy Bicha ]
  * Merge from Debian unstable. Remaining changes:
    - debian/patches/x11-Add-support-for-fractional-scaling-using-Randr.patch:
      + X11: Add support for fractional scaling using Randr
    - Add triple-buffering patch
    - debian/libmutter-10-0.symbols: Add symbols for triple buffering patch
    - ubuntu/wayland-data-device-Allow-any-drag-timestamp-as-drag-star.patch:
      + handle DnD for old (snapped) gtk apps that used wrong wayland serials

mutter (42.0-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * debian/patches: Cherry-pick upstream fixes targeting 42.1
  * debian/patches: Ensure repick happens on actors visibility changed
    (LP: #1964545)

  [ Jeremy Bicha ]
  * Release to unstable

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <email address hidden> Wed, 13 Apr 2022 03:30:39 +0200