XkbSetDetectableAutoRepeat not working on some platforms

[F Capela]

From: Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at codeweavers.com>

> "F Capela" <fabio.capela at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > XkbSetDetectableAutoRepeat is not working correctly on some
> > distributions, including Ubuntu 9.04. In practical terms, this
> > means programs running under Wine on such distros are unable to
> > ignore autorepeat, doing strange things to games that use keyboard
> > controls, for example. One way to work around the problem is to
> > manually filter out the key release messages, which can be done
> > with a few extra lines in dlls/winex11.drv/event.c . My question is,
> > should I send a patch enabling this filtering? From what I have seen,
> > patches to work around bugs that are clearly outside Wine are usually
> > not accepted.
> 
> Have you reported a bug to XOrg and those distros about that?
> 
> -- Dmitry.


I have not yet filled a bug with Ubuntu (which is the distro I'm
using), I'll do it as soon as I find how, but while searching for
information about this issue I saw a bug filled for Gentoo (which I'm
not sure if it's still present), and there are two open bugs under
bugs.freedesktop.org (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22194
and http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22515) about
XkbSetDetectableAutoRepeat not working, both filled in june, one
reported under Ubuntu and the other for the GIT version.

A bit of extra information, the only software I use that seems to be affected is World of Warcraft; the walk animation stutters when using the keyboard to move, and some things that should not auto repeat (jumps, spell casting, etc) do repeat.

BTW, the same bug will happen (and be wine's fault) if the X server
does not support DetectableAutorepeat, since when it calls
XkbSetDetectableAutoRepeat in dlls/winex11.drv/x11drv_main.c, wine does
not care about the function's return value or third argument (although
I don't think there is any widely used version of the X server that
don't support DetectableAutorepeat).


Fábio Oliveira Schmidt Capela