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[Nick Minkler <nick.minkler@xxxxxxxx>]

Thomas: This issue is reproducible simply by attempting to scan a
barcode into the xterm window NOT a child process, I was simply
indicating that it happened in both places.  The USB scanner is acting
as a basic character-input device when used like this.  There's no
special application running it's just detected by Ubuntu as a Symbol
Scanner and then I'm opening an xterm window and trying to scan
something, at this point xterm completely locks up, can't cntrl-c can't
click X to kill it. Have to manually open another terminal and kill the
xterm process.  However, the Scanner will work properly using any other
application that was not launched using xterm.  For instance I can
launch lxterminal and it accepts the scan as text input just fine, same
with a web browser, or leafpad.

Also, this is not an issue on our previous system installation which
uses Ubuntu Maverick & has xterm 261-1ubuntu3 installed, it's only
happening on Trusty with xterm 297-1ubuntu1.

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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.

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