New laptop - weird key repeat issue

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 12:51:45 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>Unfortunately I don't have a clue how to solve this issue, but at least
>we know that most likely
>
>- the laptop's keyboard isn't broken, but
>- it anyway seemingly is related to the hardware and the used X
>  environment
>
>For testing purpose I would add a new user and check if the issue still
>appears for the new user.
>
>Assumed it should still appear for the new user, I would test another
>WM and/or DE.

Consider to test also a live media of another Ubuntu release and/or
from another distro.