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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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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.