SUMMARY Before the updates from 16th Feb afternoon, when holding down a key for a longer time, it got correctly interpreted as repeated key presses, so that holding down a key would repeat that character or action with a fixed speed as long as the key is pressed. This is very useful for del/backspace in particular and definetely the desired behaviour. Yesterday's updates to Plasma 5.21 broke that. Holding down a key only triggers the action one time, and does not recognise that it should actually be repeated. I personally find this behaviour rather disturbing for my workflow. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Use up-to-date KDE Neon User 2. hold down a key (space or backspace, for instance) -> the action won't be repeated as it should OBSERVED RESULT When holding down a key, it gets interpreted as one single key press and is not repeated EXPECTED RESULT While a key is held down, its actions should be repeated. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: KDE neon 5.21 KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.79.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.4.0-65-generic OS Type: 64-bit Graphics Platform: Wayland ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Both Wayland and X11 are affected My input method is set to ibus as described in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411729#c4 (but reverting the environment variables related to ibus didn't change anything) Since I have no clue which of the many packages updated with the move to Plasma 5.21 is causing this bug, I decided to report this here in Neon issues.
I can not reproduce this issue: the keys repeat just fine after yesterday's update to Plasma 5.21.0. Kernel Version: 5.8.0-43-generic Graphics Platform: X11 However, I do not use ibus or IM modules.
Hmm, then maybe this is related to ibus nevertheless - I guess I forgot to reboot after taking out the environment variables. I'll investigate that again. Did the updates modify anything regarding ibus or keyboard input in general?
I did some tests, here are the results: - the issue seems unrelated to ibus - after commenting out the environment variables and rebooting, there is no change - I created a new user and tried holding down a key, and it works correctly, which means this problem must have something to do with my configuration
That is very very weird... Maybe I should just migrate to a new user, but still I'd like to know what is the cause of this. I think I don't have any unusual configuration...
I am noticing now that something more general must have gone wrong yesterday - It almost seems like large parts of my configuration became invalid or something similar: The present windows button, the digital clock, and the virtual desktops widget have dramatically decreased and got unsharp. Moreover, on the attempt to switch users, I had two freezes today (which I never experienced before). Also, I do not have this bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433071 in the new testing user. After yesterday's update, I changed some preferences and tweaked my task bar etc., but without logging out and in again. Maybe this is the cause of all the trouble?