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#1 2009-02-18 20:17:28

Dethredic
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Time Before Buttons Repeat (xset)

So currently the time before a button is repeated it too shot. I often find myself typing double letters or even triple by accident.

I did some searching and I found that the xset command.

I did an "xset q" and got this:
auto repeat delay: 600    repeat rate:  25

I am assuming that means it starts to autorepeat after 600ms and at a rate of 25.

I dumped up the auto repeat delay to 800 using:
"xset r rate 800 25"
I check the results of this with "xset q" again and sure enough it had changed, but I didn't notice a difference. For kicks I bumped up the time to 3000 but still I didn't notice a difference...

I thought that maybe I needed to restart x for the effects to take place, but when did so the value was reset to 600.

So am I going about this in the complete wrong way or am I just missing something?

EDIT: I am in openbox if that is important.

Last edited by Dethredic (2009-02-18 20:37:22)

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#2 2009-02-18 20:29:22

Procyon
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Re: Time Before Buttons Repeat (xset)

It's because of evdev from auto hotplugging. Try googling for that with autorepeat.

(maybe: kbdrate -r 25 -d 800?)

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#3 2009-02-18 20:46:22

Dethredic
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Re: Time Before Buttons Repeat (xset)

Procyon wrote:

It's because of evdev from auto hotplugging. Try googling for that with autorepeat.

(maybe: kbdrate -r 25 -d 800?)

I tried the command but I still don't notice anything.

I set r to 2 (its min) and d to (1000) its max and I still didn't notice anything. Do I need to restart for the changes to take effect?

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#4 2009-02-18 21:21:58

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Re: Time Before Buttons Repeat (xset)

I'd try disabling hotplugging and adding the default keyboard driver to xorg.conf.

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