[bug #52691] shift key depressed state lost after first subsequent keystroke

[Felix Miata]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52691>

                 Summary: shift key depressed state lost after first
subsequent keystroke
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: mrmazda
            Submitted on: Tue 19 Dec 2017 06:03:36 AM EST
                Category: User Interface
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Felix Miata
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 
                 Release: 2.02
         Reproducibility: Every Time
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

Motherboard:
http://www.gigabyte.us/Motherboard/GA-B250M-D3H-rev-10
keyboard used via PS/2 connector
Booting UEFI mode
Same problem with openSUSE Tumbleweed, openSUSE 15.0alpha, and Debian Stretch
versions of Grub 2.02.

To reproduce:
1-hit e key to edit a menu selection
2-hold down right or left shift key
3-type ROOT with other fingers

Actual result:
1-Root

Expected result:
2-ROOT

Workarounds are to press and release shift key for each wanted keystroke, or
to use CAPSLOCK.




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