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dext

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From: Poland, Kraków

Registered: 2008-02-01

Posts: 124

Keyboard repeat delay

Hi,

I plug in and out my laptop to a docking station a lot. I work on 2 separate users and XFCE sessions simultaneously. Sometimes, after plugging in a keyboard, on one of the sessions, the keyboard setting "repeat delay" gets set to a higher value. I don't know what value exactly, because XFCE keyboard setting still shows my intended setting. I have to switch this setting back and forth to enforce the setting I want.

I'm using latest XFCE, and I have this problem for like last half a year, so it's not a latest update.

I know it's very little information, so first I'd like to ask, how to debug it? Where are setting like "repeat delay" set? What parts of the system could possibly change them? I'm quite sure it's XFCE related, because it usually happens to other session, not active at time of plugging in.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 77,632

Re: Keyboard repeat delay

xset q | grep -C3 "auto repeat

    To turn auto-repeat off or on:
    -r [keycode]        r off
      r [keycode]        r on
      r rate [delay [rate]]

The keyboard likely gets re-attached and reset and that goes unnoticed by the session.

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