Opened 8 years ago
Last modified 8 years ago
#16783 new defect
held keypress causes "flickering" responses in VM
| Reported by: | matthewls | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 5.1.22 |
| Keywords: | key press responses | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | Windows | Host type: | Linux |
Description
Through version 5.1.22, press-and-holding a key in a VM produced continuous responses. Now, in Version 5.1.23 r115604 (Qt5.6.1), the response is flickering and functionally broken. Specifically, I press and hold numeric keyboard 5 to temporarily activate the microphone input for Dragon Naturally Speaking dictation. This always worked before to keep the mic on (red mic icon to green); now the mic icon color flickers during and after the key hold, as though the keyboard buffer is overflowing or not being read immediately. This happens in both seamless and window mode guest. Host: Mint KDE 18.1, kernel 4.1.2, AMD FX-9370 8 core CPU, 32GB RAM, microsoft wireless keyboard; Guest: windows 7 64, 5GB VRAM, 4 VCPUs
I worked around this by entering xset -r 84 to turn off key 84 autorepeat.
But why this change now? Same in Version 5.1.23 r115730 (Qt5.6.1)