Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 16.10 (yakkety) reached end-of-life on July 20, 2017.
See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1650629 Title: GNOME shell records characters out of order Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in xorg package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: GNOME shell repeats characters or gets them iut of order Occasionally in the overview app searcher, LibreOffice Writer and possibly other places There was a fix for this in 3.17 but it is still present. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10 Package: gnome-shell 3.20.4-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-30.32-generic 4.8.6 Uname: Linux 4.8.0-30-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Thu Dec 15 15:13:07 2016 DisplayManager: lightdm SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-11-16 (29 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1650629/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp