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There's a key repeat bug in x.org which causes spurious key releases, so that instead of a held key producing a series of key-down events followed by a single key up, it produces a stream of key-down/key-up pairs.

This breaks a lot of programs. It's clearly an x.org bug, not a WINE bug. As such, although there's a patch for WINE to hack around it, there's no intention of adding the patch to WINE or to crossover.

... Leading to my question:

Can anyone point me at a Linux distribution newer than Ubuntu 8.x or so which has an x.org in which this bug has been fixed? I have been unable to find anything, and I'm told it's still broken in the Karmic betas, so it looks like no one's planning to upgrade X servers to address this anytime soon, even though the bug's apparently fixed in the main tree:

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22515

Arch Linux has xorg-server 1.7.5-1(Updated: 17/02/2010) in current and 1.7.5-2 in testing, so I imagine it's fixed in Arch.

I've certainly not noticed it for a long time in Arch but I only saw it in WoW with Debian based distros in the first place, and I no longer play WoW.

If you can wait just over a month it is fixed in Ubuntu Lucid (10.4)

As a workaround just untick sticky keys in System -> Preferences -> Keyboard before firing up CXG/Wine