XkbSetDetectableAutoRepeat not working on some platforms

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"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.