Another round for keyboard repeating

cdscls · #1 3rd December 2006, 07:47 PM

Still working through the nitemare of getting zod installed and running, but keyboard repeat (press and hold) does not work. Have played with keyboard rate, have enabled repeat keys. Have not found sufficient info either here or on web. I have tried searching, but nothing working yet

Chris

Jman · #2 5th December 2006, 06:07 AM

On the GNOME desktop, System > Preferences > Keyboard does not help?

cdscls · #3 8th December 2006, 01:36 AM

Sorry, does not help. Have allready been down that road. The best I can get is a 1 character repeat

marko · #4 8th December 2006, 03:50 AM

Try running the command:

xset -q

On my FC6 it says:

Code:

$>  xset -q
Keyboard Control:
  auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  50    LED mask:  00000002
  auto repeat delay:  446    repeat rate:  34
  auto repeating keys:  00ffffffdffffbbf
                        fadfffdfffdfe5ef
                        ffffffffffffffff
                        ffffffffffffffff
  bell percent:  50    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  100
  ......

Like my results show I have repeat on and delayed .446 sec and
doing 34 letters/sec.
Use that to confirm if your auto repeat, delay and rate make sense.
You can also change those via the "r" option (see the man page for xset )

To actually set a particular values, like delay 500 and 40 keys a second,
you'd add to the InputDevice section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf an entry
for "AutoRepeat":

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
        Option "AutoRepeat" "500 40"
EndSection

But now with gnome and kde they mostly have their own settings for
those. For KDE you'd pull up the Control Center-> Peripherals->Keyboard,
and Gnome you've tried what it needs. I'm just wondering if
the xorg.conf might take precedence if it has a value set
in the InputDevice section.

Mark