Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston.
On Mon 03 Jan 2022 at 16:25:47 (+1100), David wrote:
> 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.
I presume you do this by placing something like
/sbin/kbdrate -r 8 -d 500 -s
± a shebang, into a file like
/etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/<something>/kbdrate.sh
Which <something> is appropriate?
Cheers,
David.
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