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malanrich · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Posts: 136 Location: L.A. in USA

Anyone know how to disable or reduce the keyboard repeat rate? Mine's toooooooooo sensitive.

Urban · Joined: 26 Feb 2008 Posts: 58 Location: United States

edit ~/.fluxbox/startup

In there is a setting for keyboard repeat-rate uncomment and fool around with the numbers.
xset r rate 195 35

EDIT: More info a few posts down. http://antix.freeforums.org/keyboard-repeat-rate-t507.html#2671
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I am relatively new to fluxbox and I have never had experience with adjusting these so maybe play around with those numbers until something good happens. I assume less is slower.

On a related note I changed my keyboard driver in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
to kbd instead of keyboard because apparently Keyboard is going to be removed from later kernel versions. Plus the warnings in xsession-errors were annoying.

malanrich · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Posts: 136 Location: L.A. in USA

Ha Ha. Thanks for the tip. I knew it must be simple like that, but when I first looked in startup, everything seemed commented out. So I carelessly overlooked that setting.

I wonder if there's a way to disable it entirely...maybe zeroing out the numbers or setting it to xset r rate off. Hmmmm.

Also I'm thinking that every WM would have its own setting for this. If I set to boot into icewm, the fluxbox settings would be null, right?

Urban · Joined: 26 Feb 2008 Posts: 58 Location: United States

The keyboard repeat rate is a window manager specific setting as far as I know.

n2j3 · Joined: 19 Nov 2007 Posts: 45 Location: Greece

xset's pretty useful

try xset -b to disable pcspeaker beeps
and xset m 1/2 to reduce (halve?) your mouse speed (i found my optical mouse too fast by default)
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Urban · Joined: 26 Feb 2008 Posts: 58 Location: United States

xset -r OR xset r off will disable autorepeat

xset r rate <delay in milliseconds before auto repeat starts> <repeat rate per second>

xset r rate 1000 1
would be repeat every second once per second

malanrich · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Posts: 136 Location: L.A. in USA

Thanks for the details about xset, guys.

It's not a trivial adjustment. One post described the horror of a guy who couldn't log in anymore because his password kept repeating.

Urban · Joined: 26 Feb 2008 Posts: 58 Location: United States

You can just type the xset command into a terminal and test it on the fly.

malanrich · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Posts: 136 Location: L.A. in USA

Hi urban,

When you say "You can just type the xset command into a terminal and test it on the fly," it makes me wonder about what has to be "restarted" in fluxbox in order for new settings to take effect. I've been restarting and also rebooting.

A couple of things I've discovered:

1) Altering the repeat rate seems *not* to be wm specific. My new settings carry over into both Icewm and Window Maker.

2) (very important for future searchers on this topic) *Beware* of disabling autorepeat entirely. This will disable *all* keyboard scrolling (i.e., scrollbars on all windows, scrolling of cursor direction keys, even scrolling multiple line-breaks with the "enter" key in a text document).

Urban · Joined: 26 Feb 2008 Posts: 58 Location: United States

xset is actually a command to set your preferences for X. So technically it is set for all WMs, but putting it in the config file for fluxbox should only execute it when fluxbox starts. That is what I mean when I say window manager specific.

My understanding of xset is that the settings are reset to default values when you restart X. So unless they are put into a file that is run every start up they will not be remembered.