https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=371756
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--- Comment #36 from Egbert Eich 2008-11-26 02:51:41 MST ---
The problem occurs while going from the 'Welcome' YaST screen to the
'Installation Mode' screen when the user hasn't pressed any key on the
keyboard, yet. Pressing any key (even if it doesn't trigger any action) will
result in autorepeat on.
Apparently YaST loads the keyboard layout somewhere during the transition
between the two screens (probably while doing system probing).
The reason for this is the changed default handling of the core keyboard:
the core keyboard is identified and the keyboard state is loaded on the
first key press by the user. If the keymap gets modified before this is done
the autorepeat state may not be the one of the core keyboard.
Thus this is not a bug but a change in the semantics which was introduced
with dynamic input devices and the virtual keyboard.
I remember this being discussed on the last XDS in Edinburgh (maybe Luc also
remembers).
The situation can be remedied by just calling 'xon r on' or just by calling
XChangeKeyboardControl(3) with the appropriate arguments after the keyboard
layout has been loaded to turn on autorepeat. XAutoRepeatOn(3) may also
already be sufficient. So please fix YaST.
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