x2x repeats events spuriously
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| x2x (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: x2x
I use 'ssh -X othermachine x2x -north -from :0' to have my laptop's keyboard and mouse control two computers. Usually this works pretty well. Sometimes, and especially if the network is busy with other traffic, x2x starts
Sometimes (and especially if the network is loaded), x2x starts repeating the last keyboard event several times. Usually this is Enter, resulting in extra blank lines in the editor or shell; sometimes it's a letter resulting in wordddddddddddddds liiiiiiiiiiiike thissssssssssssss. On a couple of occasions the repetition never let up leaving me with two unusable computers until I pressed ctrl+alt+f1 and killed the ssh process, terminating x2x.
This last has just happened to me again, prompting this bug report. Both machines are running Ubuntu Jaunty.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: x2x 1.27.svn.20060501-4
ProcEnviron:
LC_CTYPE=
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=lt_LT.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: x2x
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-12-generic i686
| Marius Gedminas (mgedmin) wrote | #1 |
| Jeffry Johnston (ubuntu-kidsquid) wrote | #2 |
| Jeffry Johnston (ubuntu-kidsquid) wrote | #3 |
This happens to me also. I experience the exact behavior as described by the bug report, in every detail (repeated characters occasionally, Enter often repeats, sometimes it repeats a character and x2x has to be killed to stop it). I also notice that the mouse pointer becomes sluggish. This is when I am at home on my wired network. When I am using a wireless network at work, the problem DOESN'T occur (which seems backwards to me).
The laptop running x2x is using Ubuntu Jaunty x86.
At home, the computer ssh'ed into the laptop via a wired ethernet connection is x86_64, and running Ubuntu Karmic (this is the problem configuration).
At work, the computer ssh'ed into the laptop via wireless is x64, and running Debian Squeeze (this is the configuration that seems flawless).