Key press auto repeated forever occasionally with ibus

My case is differ from this: any key could be repeated, such as backspace.

It’s annoying when trying to input text. Thankfully it’s not that frequently.
When it’s occurring, I could use ctrl + A to select all characters and delete them, then it’s back to normal.

Update: looks like losing focus would also make it back to normal (by pressing the Win key)

Does anyone experience the same thing?

I had a similar experience, a few extensions were responsable for the majority of symptoms. I would advice you to test it with all extensions disabled.

Do you mean extensions for ibus?

I only got these packages installed.

No, in my case gnome extensions were causing issues. Among them, random micro-freezes. Every time I opened a text editor any key that would press could be typed more times than intended.
Like I would type the word “hello” and I would see “heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeello” o “helllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllo” depending on the exact moment of the freeze.

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