Bug#630939: spurious key event after key repeat

[Joey Hess]

Package: libvte9
Version: 1:0.28.1-1
Severity: normal

I started to report this on xfce4-terminal, but then I also saw the same
bug in roxterm. So reporting against libvte.. however, I do *not* see
this bug in gnome-terminal.

Hold down the down arrow key so it repeats, go down a good number of
lines, and then release. The scrolling immediately stops, as would be
expected. Then, approximatly 2 seconds later, the cursor scrolls down
one more time, as if the key had been pressed, but it had not.

I can reproduce this easily, although not all the time. More than often
enough to be highly annoying and send me looking for another terminal.
I mostly see it with arrow keys, but I also just reproduced it by
mashing down the d key:

ddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
^                            ^^-- a second later it went to here
I started here               |
                             I stopped here

As a vi user, I'm now officially terrified...

I have observed the problem in mutt, vim, and less. I have not seen it when
running eg, cat -- perhaps it has something to do with programs that stty raw?

My window manager, in case it matters, is xmonad. I'm using the xfce4
desktop otherwise I have all accessability settings disabled. I don't see
extra spurious keypresses with xev.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xfce4-terminal depends on:
ii  exo-utils                     0.6.2-1    Utility files for libexo
ii  libatk1.0-0                   2.0.0-1    The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                         2.13-7     Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.4.12-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.94-2     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexo-1-0                    0.6.2-1    Library with extensions for Xfce
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0            2.23.3-3   GDK Pixbuf library
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.28.6-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.24.4-3   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.28.3-6   Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libvte9                       1:0.28.1-1 Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.4.3-2  X11 client-side library
ii  libxfce4util4                 4.8.1-2    Utility functions library for Xfce

Versions of packages xfce4-terminal recommends:
ii  dbus-x11                      1.4.12-2   simple interprocess messaging syst

xfce4-terminal suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
see shy jo
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