Re: Slow keyboard repeat in X after upgrade to 2.6

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_gmail.com)
Date: 12/03/04

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    Date: 3 Dec 2004 18:23:34 GMT

    On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 17:59:30 GMT, gipsy boy staggered into the Black Sun
    and said:
    > Well, the subject pretty much says it; I finally updated from a 2.4 to
    > a 2.6.19 r6 kernel (gentoo distribution) and now my keyboard repeat is
    > really slow, in X (Xorg). Not in the boot console, just X. ANyone
    > know what's going on?

    X can have a separate keyboard repeat rate from the console's.
    "xset q | grep 'repeat delay' " will tell you what your X repeat rate
    is. "xset r rate X Y" will set the repeat rate such that there is a
    delay of X milliseconds before repeat starts and Y key events per second
    will be sent. "xset r rate 400 30" works well for me, YMMV.

    KDE and GNOME have nice pointy-clicky frontends for this sort of thing.
    KDE Control Center->Peripherals->Keyboard . HTH, 

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