action #110542
closedcoordination #101048: [epic] Investigate and fix higher instability of openqaworker-arm-4/5 vs. arm-1/2/3
Try to mitigate "VNC typing issues" with disabled key repeat
Description
Motivation¶
Independent of fixing the actual performance problems I think it can help in general for openQA tests if we configure the systems we test in with a disabled key repeat to mitigate the issues, i.e. "xset r off" within X11 sessions or whatever can be seen as equivalent in non-X11 getty terminals. According to fvogt "There's also an ioctl for the vtcon". The command "kbdrate" allows to configure something but says only for "Intel" and does not allow to disable key repeat completely, only increase times, which could already help enough. By default keyboard delay is "250 ms". Any different setting likely needs to be applied per VT. So in a true text tty one could use kbdrate -d 1000 and in X xset r off whenever we start a new terminal.
Updated by okurz over 2 years ago
- Related to action #111752: [leap][qe-core] test fails in xterm - mistyping test string due to lost focus added
Updated by okurz over 2 years ago
- Status changed from New to In Progress
- Assignee set to okurz
- Target version changed from future to Ready
https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst-distri-opensuse/pull/15091 from mloviska brought me to an idea.
Updated by okurz over 2 years ago
- Status changed from In Progress to Feedback
Updated by livdywan over 2 years ago
- Due date changed from 2022-07-01 to 2022-07-08
Bumping due to hack week
Updated by okurz over 2 years ago
- Due date deleted (
2022-07-08) - Status changed from Feedback to Resolved
No complaints received. I assume that key repeat errors are a problem of the past now, … at least for os-autoinst-distri-opensuse.
Updated by okurz about 2 years ago
- Copied to action #113441: Try to mitigate "VNC typing issues" with disabled key repeat in linux tty's of qemu tests added
Updated by okurz over 1 year ago
- Related to action #109737: [opensuse][sporadic] test fails in chromium due to lost characters when typing in the address bar size:M added