Re: Keyboard autorepeat
--- Ed Cogburn <ecogburn@greene.xtn.net> wrote:
> To clear up the earlier confusion from above: I now know the
SetKbdSettings
> stuff is coming from *GNOME* (latest version of GNOME, I'm using "potato"
> updated almost daily). It now sets the keyboard every time it starts, thus
> the value of AutoRepeat in XF86Config *seems* to be ignored, but actually
> its just being overridden at startup every time.
Thanks for hunting that down.
GNOME probably uses xset (or the Xkb extension?) to change the rate(s), so it
really boils down to the change in the X server I mentioned.
> Setting the keyboard in GNOME's config will solve the problem, AutoRepeat
in
> XF86Config can be ignored as long as you use GNOME.
Surely GNOME is a better way to configure this than fiddling in XF86Config :)
Michel
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