Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston.
On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 at 14:05, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu 30 Dec 2021 at 19:48:05 (-0800), peter@easthope.ca wrote:
> > In weston, keyboard response can be hyper-typematic.
> The kbdrate can be set at @reboot in root's
> crontab to make it possible to login at a text VC more
> easily, if it's messing up your typing passwords.
Re early setting of typematic ...
These days all my root filesystems are in LUKS containers.
And one of my laptops was so hyper-typematic that there
was about a 50% chance of getting the 'cryptsetup open'
password accepted when prompted by the initrd.
While this was great for security ($ADVERSARY has
difficulty to boot the machine even if they stole the
password!), it was a bit inconvenient. And also not
great for security (gives $THEM multiple opportunities
to surveil your password as you type it over and over again) ;p
So I now run 'kbdrate' inside the initrd. This seems to have
solved the problem there and in all subsequent layers.
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