Opened 17 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

#3339 closed defect (worksforme)

single keypresses are interpreted twice

Reported by: anonymous Owned by: Isaac Richards
Priority: minor Milestone: unknown
Component: mythtv Version: unknown
Severity: low Keywords: keystroke keypress double twice press
Cc: Ticket locked: yes

Description

When pressing some key, arrow down in the menu for example, the selection navigates down twice. When pressing enter once it is interpreted as a double enter keypress. It seems to be the same with all the keys..

Im using just a regular keyboard.

I tried to search, but didn't find any similar report. Sorry if it's a duplicate.

Attachments (1)

doublekeypressdebug.diff (489 bytes) - added by stuartm 17 years ago.
Debug patch - Prints message to log for every keypress (!)

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Change History (21)

comment:1 in reply to:  description Changed 17 years ago by kristian

Sorry, forgot to mention. I'm using the ubuntu packages found in feisty (0.20).

comment:2 Changed 17 years ago by Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie@…>

This is most likely due to your LIRC config rather than being MythTV-related. You should look into using the 'repeat' option in your lircrc file.

You will probably see the same multi-kepress behaviour when using irw from the command line, which will confirm it is a LIRC issue.

comment:3 in reply to:  2 Changed 17 years ago by kristian

I'm not using lirc. I don't even have it installed (however I have an old lircrc, but changed all repeats to 0 which didn't help).

I'm using a regular usb keyboard... does lircrc really have something to do with the my keyboard behaviour?

comment:4 Changed 17 years ago by Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie@…>

Kristian,

Apologies for not paying full attention to your report - clearly lircrc does not affect your regular keyboard. I somehow missed the mention of the regular keyboard.

Do you only see this behaviour in MythTV? Have you tried altering your keyboard's repeat rate and repeat delay using xset?

Nick

comment:5 Changed 17 years ago by kristian

Yes, I'm only experiencing this with mythtv.

And no, I haven't tried to alter the repeat rate since I'm very comfortable with the current settings (defaults).

This evening I've tried mythtv quite a lot, and recently perhaps figured out a little lead: the problem doesn't appear immediatly after mythtv startup, but it seems that it always appears right after I've entered some submenu. And then it persists until I restart mythtv.

comment:6 Changed 17 years ago by kristian

I tried to disable keyboard repeat (I did it from kde control center, but it probably does the same as xset). The navigation really works when keyboard repeat is disabled.

However, I would like to have keyboard repeat enabled. Do I have to always switch it off before launching mythtv?

comment:7 Changed 17 years ago by stuartm

Resolution: invalid
Status: newclosed

I'm going to close this as invalid.

You need to alter the repeat rate for your keyboard. We can't ignore or change the repeat rate in mythtv just because it's too fast to allow proper navigation, that would involve second guessing the user who may have chosen a higher or lower repeat rate for a reason. Likewise, disabling auto-repeat wouldn't be expected and would make scrolling through long lists impossible.

If mythtv responds twice for every keypress, that is because two events are received.

comment:8 Changed 17 years ago by kristian

Resolution: invalid
Status: closedreopened

Since no other program I have, and I have many, receives two events for every keypress, it should be obvious that it's mythtv that is doing something wrong. It does not behave as a program should behave and thus it is a bug.

Keyboard repeat should be used for different purposes than as a workaround for some implementation problems. I can mention my settings: delay 660msec, rate 25/sec. One very short keypress in mythtv results in two (never three or four) actions, where the second appears about 0,5 second later than the first. It's definitely a bug.

comment:9 Changed 17 years ago by paulh

Resolution: worksforme
Status: reopenedclosed

I can't reproduce this using your exact settings, even turning the delay right down to 100ms I'm not seeing anything out of the ordinary. If this really is a bug in Myth surely we would have 100's of people complaining about it?

We need some concrete proof that this really is a genuine bug and not just some local problem at your end and since none of the devs seem to be able to reproduce it you are going to have to do some digging on your own.

I'd start by adding some debug statements in the eventfilter in MythMainWindow? to see if it *is* receiving two events for each key press. If it is then as Stuart has already said Myth is doing the right thing and you need to look at your setup. If it receives one key press but somehow Myth is seeing that as two then you need to figure out how that is happening and let us know so we can try to fix it.

comment:10 Changed 17 years ago by kristian

I know, the behaviour is not reproduced for everybody. I have also installed mythtv successfully on other computers. However, the problem is a fact for me.

I'm sorry, but I don't have enough time to spend to enter that deep into mythtv development, needed to compile the stuff from source with debug statements.

Let's say it ain't a mythtv bug. Any other (easy) test suggestions? I'm using a quite regular kubuntu setup. As said, I haven't experienced similar behaviour in any other application.

Perhaps the loaded kernel modules might give a hint?

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comment:11 Changed 17 years ago by sphery <mtdean@…>

Please post to the -users list for discussion ( http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ). Many more people will be likely to see the issue (and provide input) if you do so.

comment:12 Changed 17 years ago by anonymous

For lirc, you can run 'irw', then press a key on the remote. You should see the key first with a number '0', then with increasing numbers for the repeats.

Usually, the repeats will be too fast for what you want, but that's simply what the remote sends.

You can reduce the repeat rate at which keys are sent to mythtv, and also set an initial delay by using the 'delay' and 'repeat' options in the .mythtv/lircrc file for the definitions for each key where you want that. Below is an example for what I use for the key '8', and it gives me a very comfortable initial delay and repeat:

begin
    prog = mythtv
    button = 8
    config = 8
    delay  = 2
    repeat = 1
end

comment:13 Changed 17 years ago by anonymous

If it's from a keyboard, check your XFree86.conf or xorg.conf: It's possible to get double keypresses if you misconfigured your X server to have two keyboard inputs, each pointing to the same hardware (but using different drivers/modes/configurations)...

comment:14 Changed 17 years ago by kristoffer@…

Resolution: worksforme
Status: closedreopened

I'm seeing this as well. :(

The troubles began after a dist-upgrade on my Debian Unstable system that brought in a whole bunch of new packages, including the "latest" mythtv 0.20-svn20070417-0.0. (I hadn't been upgrading the last three months or so..)

The problem description is that the user interface works just fine until one enters the Watch Recordings menu. In there, pressing right to choose a program has the effect of two right-presses; it brings up the menu where one may play, add this episode to playlist ... delete the episode. Which isn't what you want. Pressing Escape brings you back to program selection - it is virtually impossible to get to the state of selecting an episode.

There's is a workaround though. If you choose to play the first episode and escape out of that view brings you in the position where an episode may be chosen. However you better hope it's on an odd row - because up/down jumps two episodes! Note that there's a time-delay of the second press of about 500msecs or maybe longer. Effectively, it seems that you have selected the right episode for half a second, which might trigger you to press enter. Sadly, the double press is processed first.

I've checked the suggestion of incorrectly configured xorg.conf, but that seems OK. I've got no lirc running (this is with an USB connected wireless keyboard).

Thank you for any suggestions.

/Kristoffer

comment:15 Changed 17 years ago by stuartm

Priority: majorminor
Severity: highlow

Changed 17 years ago by stuartm

Attachment: doublekeypressdebug.diff added

Debug patch - Prints message to log for every keypress (!)

comment:16 Changed 17 years ago by stuartm

Resolution: invalid
Status: reopenedclosed

I've attached a very simple debugging patch which you can use to see how many keypresses are actually received by mythtv. It will log every time a keypress is received from X.

If after trying the patch you still think there is a problem in mythtv, then reopen the ticket and I'll provide a more detailed debugging patch to identify the issue.

comment:17 in reply to:  14 Changed 17 years ago by iang

Resolution: invalid
Status: closedreopened

Replying to kristoffer@netstar.se:

I'm seeing this as well. :(

The troubles began after a dist-upgrade on my Debian Unstable system that brought in a whole bunch of new packages, including the "latest" mythtv 0.20-svn20070417-0.0. (I hadn't been upgrading the last three months or so..)

It's also happening to me, also right after upgrading debian unstable (sid). I've got a thread on mythtv-dev about it now.

comment:18 Changed 17 years ago by wonky_widget

I've just installed 0.20.2 on opensuse for a backend/frontend, and upgraded my old knoppmyth frontend to the latest version. BOTH the mythtv frontend on Opensuse -and- the frontend on knoppmyth exhibit the same "stuck key" problem, probably 25% of the time when watching playback of recordings. They start repeating the keystoke until you hit another key, then it stops.

The knoppmyth frontend has not changed hardware in any way from the previous (2 year old) knoppmyth install.

comment:19 Changed 16 years ago by deadfish19

I'm in the same boat as wonky_widget; the problem description fits exactly what I'm experiencing. I upgraded my mythtv installation to 0.20.2 for the SchedulesDirect? functionality, and my wired keyboard keypresses are sometimes (roughly 1 in 4) interpreted as a "stuck key", causing the cursor to scroll wildly or dive deeply through menus. I would be happy to provide any logs requested.

comment:20 Changed 16 years ago by stuartm

Resolution: worksforme
Status: reopenedclosed
Ticket locked: set
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