I worked with Zebra on this and was able to get the scanner working by reducing the USB polling interval on the scanner to 8msec, the default is to poll every 3msec. I still believe this is a bug in how xterm accepts input because of the following:
A) This issue does not occur when accepting input as root. B) This issue does not occur on older versions of xterm (261 was tested) C) This issue does not occur when accepting input into other applications or windows. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xterm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1499416 Title: xterm freeze when accepting input from usb scanner Status in xterm package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I have a symbol DS4208 Wired USB barcode scanner hooked up to a machine running Ubuntu 14.04 via a USB connector. When using xterm and attempting to scan a 1D or 2D barcode the xterm window will accept in a couple characters from the USB scanner not in the correct order, and then lockup. The number of characters accepted varies, and is never in the correct order. This also happens from any child process launched from the xterm window. This issue is not present when I first sudo -s to obtain a root shell. Scans will be interpreted properly and characters are entered into child processes, or command line correctly depending on where the cursor is situated. This issue is not present in other terminal emulators such as lxterminal. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xterm/+bug/1499416/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
