Shift/ALT/CTRL keys sticking in Wine...

mjuad · Post by **mjuad** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 4:58 pm

I am using Wine in Freebsd 6.3-RELEASE and everything seemed to be running flawlessly until I began using a development tool we use on a project I'm working on, NuSphere PHPEd. I don't think that is the problem, however, because it seems to do it everywhere. Basically, I can begin typing and the Shift/ALT keys work fine until I press them about 4-5 times. Not in a row...4-5 times period, whether they're separated by 1 or 100 other keys. It reminds me of the "Sticky Keys" feature in windows, but that is only turned on after pressing the Shift key 5 times in a row.

Has anyone else had this problem or know how I can fix it? If you need any more information on my setup to help, just ask.

Greg

mjuad · Post by **mjuad** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:03 pm

So nobody else has had this problem? Or does nobody know how to fix it?

stimpak · Post by **stimpak** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:04 pm

never heard that problem before. Have you checked if your distro is configured to react somehow when you press a certain combination of keys?

for example Ubuntu, gets in 'assistive' mode when you press shift for 5 secs or 6 times in a row, effectively locking keyboard input. If there's any possibility your distro do something like that, to disable it first, and see if that solves the problem.

mjuad · Post by **mjuad** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 2:53 pm

I'll check it out, but I've never had the problem in anything but Wine...I thought it had "fixed itself" as I didn't have the problem last night, but then today I started having it again. It's driving me nuts!

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 3:56 pm

mjuad wrote:I'll check it out, but I've never had the problem in anything but Wine...I thought it had "fixed itself" as I didn't have the problem last night, but then today I started having it again. It's driving me nuts!

This really sounds like some other process getting in a way. Wine does have it's own key state tracking. But pressing key and releasing it inside Wine should always clear it's state. If this does not happen, then something else trying to "fake" key presses/releases.

mjuad · Post by **mjuad** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 7:23 pm

Well, I thought that the problem had fixed itself like I said...but the problem still exists -- in XFCE. Under GNOME, Wine works like a dream and I get no sticking keys...setting up OSS and Ventrilo, on the other hand, is going to be a chore. Anyhow, does anyone know what it might be in XFCE that is doing that, or should I post a bug report?