Comment 58 for bug 194214

It depends on the game, I play WoW in Wine and it detects then a key is pressed and when it comes back up, so its fine for me. its not a perfect solution, but its the only workaround I'm aware of. so far the non-repeating keys have only been a problem when I use a terminal where I can't select the text to delete and backspace once.

>But then I can't hold down the keys.
>Example, if I want to move my guy in a game to the left, I don't want
>to press Left-key 25 times, I want to hold it down.
>If I want to erase some text, I don't want press backspace 10 times, I
>want to hold down backspace.
>
>On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Asa Ayers <email address hidden> wrote:
>> I've found that if I go to System > Preferences > Keyboard and uncheck
>> "Key presses repeat when key is held down" it solves my problem. I hope
>> that helps in figuring out whats going on.