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xev output illustrating what appears to be a hardware bug in the keyboard of my HP ProBook 4530s. See http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/233506/working-around-a-buggy-keyboard-hacking-an-input-stream
KeyPress event, serial 40, synthetic NO, window 0x2600001,
root 0x93, subw 0x0, time 63046084, (824,397), root:(828,422),
state 0x0, keycode 32 (keysym 0x6f, o), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (6f) "o"
XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (6f) "o"
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyPress event, serial 40, synthetic NO, window 0x2600001,
root 0x93, subw 0x0, time 63046247, (824,397), root:(828,422),
state 0x0, keycode 30 (keysym 0x75, u), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (75) "u"
XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (75) "u"
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyPress event, serial 40, synthetic NO, window 0x2600001,
root 0x93, subw 0x0, time 63046453, (824,397), root:(828,422),
state 0x0, keycode 57 (keysym 0x6e, n), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (6e) "n"
XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (6e) "n"
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyPress event, serial 40, synthetic NO, window 0x2600001,
root 0x93, subw 0x0, time 63046456, (824,397), root:(828,422),
state 0x0, keycode 96 (keysym 0xffc9, F12), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
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