Bizarre bug with Qt programs under WSL2 on Win 11

[Barry]

> On 5 Nov 2021, at 18:42, Damon Lynch <damonlynch at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> It's not PyQt specific. Use Ctrl-Q to quit from a Qt program, and it's as if the same key combo is pressed when you start any Qt program again, i.e. the program quits instantly. Start another or the same Qt program, and it's as if the q key is being pressed down on the keyboard (even though it's not). It's so strange I made a video to illustrate:
> 
> https://youtu.be/MflcrMMlNnc

I think you can raise a bug on GitHub against wsl2 these days.
Sorry did not hunt down which project to do that on.

Barry

> 
> Tested under Ubuntu 20.04 & 21.10, with distro Qt packages and with the PyQt5 pip package. Same result. Qt6 not tested. Non Qt programs seem unaffected.
> 
> This is the same code if you want to try it yourself (or just start qt assistant or similar):
> 
> import pkg_resources
> import platform
> import sys
> from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication, QTextEdit, QMainWindow, QAction, QToolBar
> from PyQt5.QtCore import PYQT_VERSION_STR, QT_VERSION_STR
> from PyQt5.QtGui import QTextCursor
> 
> 
> class Window(QMainWindow):
>     def __init__(self):
>         super().__init__()
>         self.textEdit = QTextEdit()
>         self.setCentralWidget(self.textEdit)
>         self.setWindowTitle("Catch Input Example")
>         self.setMinimumWidth(500)
>         self.toolbar = QToolBar("Catch Input Toolbar")
>         self.addToolBar(self.toolbar)
>         self.quitAct = QAction("&Quit", self, shortcut="Ctrl+Q", triggered=self.close)
>         self.toolbar.addAction(self.quitAct)
>         location = (
>             pkg_resources.get_distribution("PyQt5").location
>         )
>         self.textEdit.setText(
>             f"Platform: {platform.platform()}\n"
>             f"PyQt: {PYQT_VERSION_STR}\n"
>             f"Qt: {QT_VERSION_STR}\n"
>             f"PyQt5 location: {location}\n"
>         )
>         self.textEdit.moveCursor(QTextCursor.End)
>         self.move(10, 10)
> 
> 
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>     app = QApplication(sys.argv)
>     window = Window()
> 
>     window.show()
>     sys.exit(app.exec_())
> 
> -- 
> https://damonlynch.net
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