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I recently installed Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on my old enough Acer Aspire 7738G and everywhere it keeps adding a string of "2" characters, i.e. "22222222" at the cursor position no matter if I open a browser, open search bar in Ubuntu, terminal, etc.. I am able to delete this string by hitting the Insert key and then delete.

Previously I had Windows 7 installed where I had the same issue and decided to install Ubuntu by replacing Windows (not in parallel), hoping that it will help, but no luck. I will be grateful for any help/suggestions.

Auto insertion of '2' characters in search bar

Greenonline
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Sher_shaah
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    Looks like a sticky switch. Cleaning your keyboard ought to help immensely … – matigo Jul 27 '21 at 10:49
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    Previously I had Windows 7 installed where I had the same issue so this rules out OS/software. It's clearly an hardware issue as explained above. – ChanganAuto Jul 27 '21 at 10:58
  • Thanks everyone, it was definitely an hardware issue and disabling the laptop keyboard solved the issue. (https://askubuntu.com/questions/160945/is-there-a-way-to-disable-a-laptops-internal-keyboard) – Sher_shaah Jul 27 '21 at 11:03

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I faced the same problem.

It's actually that your keyboard is damaged and you need to replace it or disconnect the built-in keyboard and use an external keyboard.

If it's too costly to replace the keyboard so you can watch this to disable the built-in keyboard.

So this is a hardware problem and all the software is good.

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