Any fast enough press of the Alt key, even in combination, brings up the HUD

Bug #954891 reported by John Lenton
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Bug Description

This doesn't happen all the time, and it *might* only start after a suspend/resume cycle, or possible after having the session running for long enough, but when it does start happening it's very, very annoying: any sufficiently fast press of alt, even as part of a combination such as alt-tab, brings up the HUD. In the particular case of alt-tab it's incredibly annoying because you alt-tab, the application on top changes, the hud comes up, you press escape, and the application is popped back out.

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John Lenton (chipaca) wrote :

I just did a suspend/resume and the misbehaviour started immediately after resuming (and it wasn't misbehaving before suspend).

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John Lenton (chipaca) wrote :

Recorded this happening at http://ubuntuone.com/0Z5FkxQ50DigJ6LXZJNAPy?attachment=true
Note that the audio and video are not in sync, sorry. Hopefully you get the idea despite that.

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John Lenton (chipaca) wrote :

Just discovered this only happens with the external USB keyboard. xev output to follow.

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John Lenton (chipaca) wrote :
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John Lenton (chipaca) wrote :
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Paweł Stołowski (stolowski) wrote :

John, just to clarify: the log from xev for external keyboard was captured when the misbehaviour occured, and the output for internal keyboard was captured during normal operation (since you said it only happened with external keyboard)? Is this correct?

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John Lenton (chipaca) wrote :

That is correct.

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Albert Astals Cid (aacid) wrote :

Marking as dupe of 968840 that has the "very fast" combination implied (since it's the hardware of the laptop sending alt+left)

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