polled input sticking

When holding a key down continuously the key eventually stops returning its pressed state until you release and press again?

I am running in windowed mode. And calling enablepolledinput() All works fine under Windows and OSX but not Linux.

Here is an example of the problem, use the left arrow key to change screen colour.

Also if you change KEY_LEFT to KEY_ESCAPE then nothing ever happens?

Const WINDOW_WIDTH=640
Const WINDOW_HEIGHT=384

Local wx=(GadgetWidth(Desktop())-WINDOW_WIDTH)/2
Local wy=(GadgetHeight(Desktop())-WINDOW_HEIGHT)/2
Global main_window:TGadget = CreateWindow( Title$,wx,wy,WINDOW_WIDTH,WINDOW_HEIGHT,Null,WINDOW_TITLEBAR | WINDOW_CLIENTCOORDS)
Global canvas:TGadget=CreateCanvas(0,0,WINDOW_WIDTH,WINDOW_HEIGHT,main_window)
SetGraphics CanvasGraphics(canvas)

ActivateGadget canvas

CreateTimer(10)

enablepolledinput()

While WaitEvent()

	Select	EventID()

		Case EVENT_WINDOWCLOSE
			End

		Case EVENT_TIMERTICK

			If KeyDown(KEY_LEFT)
				SetClsColor Rnd(255),Rnd(255),Rnd(255)
				Cls
				Flip
			EndIf

	EndSelect

End While