[arch-general] Sticky keys and gaming

[Austin Adams]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 04:46:00PM -0200, Rafael Beraldo wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I don't play very often but when I do, I get sticky keys. By sticky keys I
> mean that after about
> half an hour playing, when I stop pressing, say, ‘w’, the character
> continues walking forward.
> I first noticed that playing Minecraft and thought the issue was related to
> Java. A quick
> search [0,1] supported that theory.
> 
> However yesterday I was playing Counter Strike 1.6 on wine and, after a
> while, I noticed I'd
> continue walking forward even after I'd stopped pressing ‘w’, so I thought
> I'd drop an email
> here and see if anybody else has had that kind of issue.
> 
> I had this problem running both Fluxbox and i3. I think that's not related,
> but I run setxkbmap us
> intl every time I go to either window manager.
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> 
> [0]:
> https://www.google.com.br/search?q=sticky+keys+minecraft+linux&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
> [1]: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=sticky+keys+minecraft+linux
> 
> -- 
> Rafael Beraldo
> cabaladada.org

I've never played Counter-Strike, but I haven't noticed my keys sticking in Minecraft since I updated the lwjgl libraries in ~/.minecraft/bin [1]. 

-austin

[1]: http://lwjgl.org/download.php