keyboard skipping keys

[Andrew Conkling]

On 12/4/05, Thomas Imbreckx <thomas.imbreckx at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, I have a very annoying problem in xfce 4.2.2 (xubuntu breezy).
> Some keys I press are skipped ... for example if I type "hello, world" it
> could came out as "hllo wod". Note that this doesn't apply only to printable
> characters as I could press F11 for compiling my anjuta project and I'd have
> to re-press it.
> I have to type very slow not to have this problem (speed of a one finger
> typer) or constantly have to come back and insert the missing chars.
> The probleme doesn't occur in other environments (I have tried in Gnome and
> blackbox).
> Does anybody have an idea about how to fix this?

I think that at one point (Warty?) Ubuntu used some customized
packages from the development tree of Xfce (xfdesktop, IIRC).  Kinda
vague, I know, but you could ask crimsun in #ubuntu or #xfce on
Freenode's IRC.  That may have something to do with it.

HTH,
Andrew

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