I am on Manjaro GNOME 45.4 (x11) and after some recent update, I am unable to type for example: aa, or 77, or ANY two identical characters in a row, so it only registers the first: a, 7, etc.

If I press the right arrow key, I am able to type another (identical) character, after which I’d have to repeat it again and again if I want all consecutive characters: e.g. aaaa.

Note: this only happens at the login screen, not lock screen or anywhere else.

Is this on purpose? Some security feature? This has to be the dumbest security feature I can image, especially since it doesn’t tell you that it’s skipping the character (which is not obvious if you type fast), and it also does let you HAVE a password of identical consecutive characters.

I only found this forum post about it:

  • @[email protected]
    9•9 months ago

    At work I’m on a really old version of Gnome and had the same issue. I noticed I could type consecutive characters if I added a pause of 1 to 2 seconds in between each press.

    Of course this is not ideal. I finally found that some how the Accessibility option called Bouncing Keys (or Bouncy Keys?) was turned on which caused this behavior. Turning it off made things work as usual.

    Not sure if this is your problem as well, but it’s worth a look